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Kathy Acker Quotes

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American Activist April 18, 1947 – November 30, 1997

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That night I followed him whenever he let me. I had to. Followed him into strange, complicated actions, very far, bad and good actions. But I was never allowed into his world. What was I to him? A fantasy. I gave him another identity. Whenever I lay next to him in a bed and it was night, I was too excited to fall asleep, too unwilling to lose a chance that I might be allowed to enter his life. Since he wanted fantasy, what I wanted didn’t matter. I asked myself if there was any chance he... Kathy Acker
R wrote Delahaye about all that had happened to him and about what he, R, wanted: My friend, You’re eating white flour and mud in your pigsty. I don’t miss Charleville. I don’t miss being a bored pig where the sun dries up all brains but sloth. Your brains or feelings’re being dried up: dead pig Delahaye. Emotions are the movers of this world. Me: I’m thirsty. What I’m thirsty for—whom I’m thirsty for—I can’t get so I drink poisons. I’ve got to free myself. From what? Pain? Oh—for more... Kathy Acker
Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless. Kathy Acker
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: "Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run."
Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run. Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker quote: "What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? ..."
What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds? Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker quote: "For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely...."
For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely. Precisely: the world and words fuck each other. Kathy Acker

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