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If we keep on fucking, I'm not gonna die.
— Kathy Acker
Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.
— Kathy Acker
Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.
— Kathy Acker
For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely. Precisely: the world and words fuck each other.
— Kathy Acker
I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.
— Kathy Acker
You know I've had work banned.
— Kathy Acker
I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.
— Kathy Acker
A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.
— Kathy Acker
Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.
— Kathy Acker
A novel is a book with a lot of pages.
— Kathy Acker
I'm what happens after death, which is writing.
— Kathy Acker
I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.
— Kathy Acker
Come alive, dead heart, and sing.
— Kathy Acker
I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.
— Kathy Acker
There is no master narrative nor realist perspective to provide a background of social and historical facts.
— Kathy Acker
Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.
— Kathy Acker
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
— Kathy Acker
Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.
— Kathy Acker
But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.
— Kathy Acker
Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.
— Kathy Acker
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.
— Kathy Acker
IF THERE IS A GOD, GOD IS DISJUNCTION AND MADNESS.
— Kathy Acker
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
— Kathy Acker
I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.
— Kathy Acker
Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.
— Kathy Acker
When the word ends, there'll be no more air. That's why it's important to pollute the air now.
— Kathy Acker
One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
— Kathy Acker
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— Kathy Acker
You can do whatever you want with my work.
— Kathy Acker
Dreams are manifestations of identities.
— Kathy Acker
I am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.
— Kathy Acker
All memory can do is scream for touch.
— Kathy Acker
I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.
— Kathy Acker
Culture is that which falsifies.
— Kathy Acker
I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.
— Kathy Acker
I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.
— Kathy Acker
The more rapidly the water moves, the lighter it seems.
— Kathy Acker
The whole world is men's bloody fantasies.
— Kathy Acker
I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?
— Kathy Acker
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— Kathy Acker
I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.
— Kathy Acker
As if l was pitch black and everyone else, pastel
— Kathy Acker
GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.
— Kathy Acker
I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.
— Kathy Acker