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Kathy Acker Quote: “Life doesn’t exist inside language: too bad for me.”

51. “Life doesn’t exist inside language: too bad for me.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people around her thought she was insane.”

52. “But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people around her thought she was insane.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.”

53. “There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “All my life I’ve dreamt dreams that, after the initial dreaming, stayed with me and kept telling me how to perceive and consider all that happens to me. Dreams run through my skin and veins, coloring all that lies beneath.”

54. “All my life I’ve dreamt dreams that, after the initial dreaming, stayed with me and kept telling me how to perceive and consider all that happens to me. Dreams run through my skin and veins, coloring all that lies beneath.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “Without language the only people the rebels can kill are themselves.”

55. “Without language the only people the rebels can kill are themselves.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “There’s a point at which when I start to know a man well – this isn’t true of women – I wonder whether there’s something in him that’s evil. Something that’s pure and can’t be touched. This quality of evil may be related to the quality of artistry, for an artist has the same characteristics.”

56. “There’s a point at which when I start to know a man well – this isn’t true of women – I wonder whether there’s something in him that’s evil. Something that’s pure and can’t be touched. This quality of evil may be related to the quality of artistry, for an artist has the same characteristics.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at the same time while remaining alive.”

57. “Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at the same time while remaining alive.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “A novel is a book with a lot of pages.”

58. “A novel is a book with a lot of pages.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “You know I’ve had work banned.”

59. “You know I’ve had work banned.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “There’s no more education, no more culture – if culture depends on a commonly understood history – and perhaps no more middle class in the United States. There’s War.”

60. “There’s no more education, no more culture – if culture depends on a commonly understood history – and perhaps no more middle class in the United States. There’s War.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.”

61. “Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “We live by the images of those we decide are heroes and gods.”

62. “We live by the images of those we decide are heroes and gods.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “Maps are dreams: both describe desire, where you want to go, but never the reality of the destination.”

63. “Maps are dreams: both describe desire, where you want to go, but never the reality of the destination.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.”

64. “I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “I understand that when people read my books that there’s something there – but I don’t identify with it.”

65. “I understand that when people read my books that there’s something there – but I don’t identify with it.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “But : We’re still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by us. We battle not in order to stay alive, that would be too materalistic, for we are body and spirit, but in order to love each other.”

66. “But : We’re still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by us. We battle not in order to stay alive, that would be too materalistic, for we are body and spirit, but in order to love each other.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “The two main girlfriends he has had wanted him to support them in the manner to which they certainly weren’t accustomed even though he couldn’t put his flabby hands on a penny.”

67. “The two main girlfriends he has had wanted him to support them in the manner to which they certainly weren’t accustomed even though he couldn’t put his flabby hands on a penny.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “The whole world is men’s bloody fantasies.”

68. “The whole world is men’s bloody fantasies.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn’t express anything: it creates.”

69. “A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn’t express anything: it creates.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “And I’m working at trying to find a kind of language where I won’t be so easily modulated by expectation.”

70. “And I’m working at trying to find a kind of language where I won’t be so easily modulated by expectation.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “I’m very staid compared to my students, actually.”

71. “I’m very staid compared to my students, actually.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “When the word ends, there’ll be no more air. That’s why it’s important to pollute the air now.”

72. “When the word ends, there’ll be no more air. That’s why it’s important to pollute the air now.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “The more rapidly the water moves, the lighter it seems.”

73. “The more rapidly the water moves, the lighter it seems.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “Why am I begging you, who parades your suffering over the ruins like a king in order to ensure that you will never be touched deeply, you who’re always laughing.”

74. “Why am I begging you, who parades your suffering over the ruins like a king in order to ensure that you will never be touched deeply, you who’re always laughing.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we’re free and easy, and actually we’re far more moralistic than any other society I’ve ever lived in.”

75. “On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we’re free and easy, and actually we’re far more moralistic than any other society I’ve ever lived in.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “Even if I do attain some goal, at that very moment the only thing that’s important to me is to go beyond that which is no longer a goal but now only a stage.”

76. “Even if I do attain some goal, at that very moment the only thing that’s important to me is to go beyond that which is no longer a goal but now only a stage.”

— Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker Quote: “Glory be to those humans that are absolutely NOTHING for the opinions of other humans: they are the true owners of illusions, transformations, and themselves.”

77. “Glory be to those humans that are absolutely NOTHING for the opinions of other humans: they are the true owners of illusions, transformations, and themselves.”

— Kathy Acker

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