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Dreams are manifestations of identities.
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identity
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Kathy Acker |
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There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.
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Kathy Acker |
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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.
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Kathy Acker |
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Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.
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Kathy Acker |
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i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.
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Kathy Acker |
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Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.
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Kathy Acker |
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Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.
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Kathy Acker |
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It's possible to name everything and to destroy the world.
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labels
names
life
nomenclature
control
destruction
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Kathy Acker |
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f96d317
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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.
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suicide
words
writing
language
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Kathy Acker |
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Eurydice sits alone on a red bed. She has flaming red hair, so flaming that you can't see anything else of her, much less anything else around her. She takes up too much space. Also she's mad. Which has nothing to do with anything. She lives in her own world because she makes the whole world hers.
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mad
eurydice
red
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Kathy Acker |
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I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.
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Kathy Acker |
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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.
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money
relationships
girlfriends
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Kathy Acker |
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cb08852
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Meanwhile the temperature is getting hotter and hotter so no one can think clearly. No one perceives. No one cares. Insane madness come out like life is a terrific party.
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new-york-city
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Kathy Acker |
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654bdd6
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Sex. You can't lie to yourself sexually. If you don't want it, it's the most disgusting thing in the world.
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rape
sex
faking-it
force
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If you read every poem in every anthology of Greek poetry, you wouldn't read one poem in which a character of the woman who's loved is described or matters.
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greek-poetry
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Kathy Acker |
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What she really wanted [...] was [...] "to experience every emotion to the limit" so she could go beyond every limit."
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surpassing-yourself
limits
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Kathy Acker |
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bdeeb5a
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Come alive, dead heart, and sing.
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Kathy Acker |
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e33155e
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I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.
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rebellion
comfort
meaning
fear
escape-velocity
bourgeoisie
materialism
mediocrity
safety
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Kathy Acker |
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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.
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Kathy Acker |
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Another reason Hawthorne set his story in the past (in lies) was 'cause he couldn't say directly all the wild things he wanted to say. He was living in a society to which ideas and writing still mattered. In 'The Custom House', the introduction to The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne makes sure he tells us the story of The Scarlet Letter occurred long ago and has nothing to do with anyone who's now living. After all, Hawthorne had to protect himse..
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Kathy Acker |
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Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.
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murder
dream
lack
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Kathy Acker |
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4f97141
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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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lovers
love
eurydice
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Kathy Acker |
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What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?
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solitude
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Kathy Acker |
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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.
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world
lesbians
worldview
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Kathy Acker |
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For reason, on the one hand, signifies the idea of a free, human social life. On the other hand, reason is the court of judgment of calculation, the instrument of domination, and the means for the greatest exploitation of nature.
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Kathy Acker |
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ceee6a0
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I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.
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Kathy Acker |
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76e5f04
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IF THERE IS A GOD, GOD IS DISJUNCTION AND MADNESS.
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Kathy Acker |
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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
evil
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Kathy Acker |
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b573610
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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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heaven
expected
hatuey
indian
hell
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Kathy Acker |
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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 m..
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Kathy Acker |
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I have about a hundred cats living in me and all of them are curious
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Kathy Acker |
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Fucking just tell me what you want and I'll go with it. That's what you do when you do s/m scenes. You discuss rules beforehand. 'Cause otherwise it's all too dangerous and there has to be trust. Well, it's the same, for me, with vanilla sex or without sex. If you don't discuss the rules, then the shit power games are outside the bed and they hurt. I'm truly no longer interested in either hurting or being hurt. It's all boring and I want to..
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Kathy Acker |
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Since Pussy never had thought, nor would she think, that women shouldn't have abortions, she had to come to terms with the realization that to be human, and woman, includes the possibility and even the act of murder.
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Kathy Acker |
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Women need to become literary 'criminals,' break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.
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Kathy Acker |
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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 ..
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Kathy Acker |
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The ceiling of languages is falling down. Either add to this rubble or shove at least some of it away. Liberty, shit. The liberty to starve. The liberty to speak words to which no one listens. The liberty to get diseases no doctor treats or can cure. The liberty to live in conditions cockroaches wouldn't touch except to die in. The liberty to be an eighty-three-year-old Ukranian shuffling around in her slippers among the cat shit in the slu..
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Kathy Acker |
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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.
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laughing
ruins
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Kathy Acker |
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She wore red lipstick the next time that I saw her, though her hair was more voluminous with dirt than before. Owing, like everything else about these girls, to the fertility of rats.
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women
rats
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Kathy Acker |
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cfd6560
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Dear David, Are you a Tibetan monk yet? I used to hate you because you didn't love me so much you would give up your whole life for me. I expect this of every man. In retrospect, I realize that I was also selfish: I should have stopped making demands that you not be the closet female-hating sadist you are.
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Kathy Acker |
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What do I care about all that average shit that has nothing to do with adventure?
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Kathy Acker |
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All the people around Hester hate her and despise her and think she's a total freak. The kid's beyond human law and human consideration. How do you feel about yourself when every human being you hear and see and smell every day of your being thinks you're worse than garbage? Your conception of who you are has always, at least partially, depended on how the people around you behaved towards you... You don't know. How can you know anything? H..
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Kathy Acker |
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a69f776
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Without language the only people the rebels can kill are themselves.
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Kathy Acker |
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Heart disease syphilis pregnancy All you creeps on the street get away from me
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Kathy Acker |
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565d3fc
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TODAY I THINK MY RELATIONSHIP WITH HELL IS OVER. It was hell, the ancient hell. Hell: I believed that if I loved V enough, we would love each other. All I know is that I've been returned to earth violently; I've a duty to myself to survive and to see what is. I have to deal with the truth, with nothing else. Did V's charity to me almost cause my death? I, starving, fed on the dream that V loved me and I lived a lie. So forgive me, You who k..
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