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  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.

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  Men, Artist, Evil

  Kathy Acker (1994). “My Mother: Demonology”, p.101, Grove Press

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• Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes will take off into the night air and the night winds, sliding past and behind each other, zooming, turning and turning in the redness of the winds, living, never to return.

  Kathy Acker

  Airplane, Past, Night

  Kathy Acker (1989). “Empire of the Senseless”, p.112, Grove Press

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• In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

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  Lying, Political, Warfare

  Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail

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• 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

  Order, People, Insane

  Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper (2002). “Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker”, p.206, Grove Press

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• LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways.LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS have made a small world deep within and separated from the world.What has usually been called the world is the male world.

  Kathy Acker

  Goal, Males, World

  Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper (2002). “Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker”, p.132, Grove Press

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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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  Expectations, Trying, Language

  "Kathy Acker: Where does she get off?". Interview with R.U. Sirius, io Magazine, Issue 2, www.altx.com. December 9, 1997.

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• A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.

  Kathy Acker

  Writing, Connections, Language

  Source: bombmagazine.org

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• Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

  Kathy Acker

  Wells, Homophobia

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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

  Cancer, Way, Beats

  "The Gift of Disease". Essay by Kathy Acker, The Guardian, January 18, 1997.

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• 'cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts.

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  Hands, Mind, Causes

  Kathy Acker (1996). “Pussy, King of the Pirates”, Acker, Kathy

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• I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

  Kathy Acker

  Book, People

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• I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.

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  Mean, Want, Innocent

  Kathy Acker (1994). “My Mother: Demonology”, p.39, Grove Press

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• First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

  Kathy Acker

  Writing, Thinking, Magic

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• Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.

  Kathy Acker

  Mind

  Kathy Acker (1989). “Blood and Guts in High School”, p.42, Grove Press

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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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  Dog, Powerful, Believe

  Kathy Acker (1989). “Blood and Guts in High School”, p.37, Grove Press

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• Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value.

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  Sex, Night, Men

  Kathy Acker (1991). “Hannibal Lecter, my father”, Semiotext

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• I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

  Kathy Acker

  Students

  "Kathy Acker: Where does she get off?". Interview with R.U. Sirius, io Magazine, Issue 2, www.altx.com. December 9, 1997.

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• You know I've had work banned.

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  Corny, Banned, Knows

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• I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in languages which I can only come up upon (as I disappear), a pirate upon buried treasure. The dreamer, the dreaming, the dream. I call these languages, languages of the body.

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  Dream, Pirate, Treasure

  Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail

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• Culture is that which falsifies.

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  Culture

  Kathy Acker (1989). “Literal Madness: Three Novels”, p.191, Grove Press

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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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  Our World, Bird, Together

  Kathy Acker (1997). “Eurydice in the Underworld”, Arcadia Books Limited

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• After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other

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  Choices, Heaven, Gathering

  Kathy Acker (1994). “My Mother: Demonology”, p.13, Grove Press

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• I'm what happens after death, which is writing.

  Kathy Acker

  Writing, After Death, Happens

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• Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.

  Kathy Acker

  Dream, Murder

  Kathy Acker (1994). “My Mother: Demonology”, p.35, Grove Press

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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.

  Kathy Acker

  Thinking, Media, Censorship

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