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My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer.""What's that?""You have to find out what caused it. — Kathy Acker

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility. — Kathy Acker

If we keep on fucking, I'm not gonna die. — Kathy Acker

I have about a hundred cats living in me and all of them are curious — Kathy Acker

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All you creeps on the street get away from me — 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

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it. — Kathy Acker

And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool. — 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

What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds? — Kathy Acker

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it. — Kathy Acker

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it. — Kathy Acker

But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men. — 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

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum. — Kathy Acker

The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense. — 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

If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. — 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

Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else. — Kathy Acker

[ ... ] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced. — Kathy Acker

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it — Kathy Acker

You can do whatever you want with my work. — Kathy Acker

Dreams are manifestations of identities. — Kathy Acker

Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating. — 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

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing. — Kathy Acker

Education,' one of R's teachers taught, 'teaches you not to be yourself.' But who is yourself? R decided if it or he wasn't blood, it wasn't anything. — Kathy Acker

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist? — Kathy Acker

What she really wanted [ ... ] was [ ... ] "to experience every emotion to the limit" so she could go beyond every limit. — 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

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now. — 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

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things. — Kathy Acker

GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND. — Kathy Acker

You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want. — Kathy Acker

I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent. — Kathy Acker