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The whole world is men's bloody fantasies.
Kathy Acker
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Kathy Acker
Age: 53 †
Born: 1944
Born: April 18
Died: 1997
Died: November 30
Comics Writer
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
New York City
New York
Karen Lehmann
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It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our bodies circled around each other - that we made our world totally separated from everything else. It was the only way we could be together.
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A novel is a book with a lot of pages.
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I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.
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I'm what happens after death, which is writing.
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A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.
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Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.
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I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.
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We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.
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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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i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.
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Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and accumulation. As soon as we stop believing in human beings, rather know we are dogs and trees, we'll start to be happy.
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I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.
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I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.
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Women need to become literary criminals, break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.
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I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.
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The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.
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Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express.
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Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.
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Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.
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First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
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