Kathy Acker Quotes
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You can do whatever you want with my work.
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Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.
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And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
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But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.
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One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
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I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.
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We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.
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Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.
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We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.
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I had been confused why I had gotten cancer. Three weeks later, I saw the network of causation so clearly I wondered why I wasn't more disease-riddled. My healer reminded me that if health is based on forgiveness, then I had to forgive ...
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I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.
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Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies. Aeneas did. Odysseus did. Listen to Delany, a prophet.
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But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.
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Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.
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You know I've had work banned.
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Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.
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I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.
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In the total devastation of the heart which is the world, the lands-lords rule. There is no way we can defeat the landslords. But under their reins and their watchful eyes.I sail as the winds of lusts and emotions bare me. Everywhere and anywhere. I who will never own, whatever and whenever I want, I take.