American - Activist | April 18, 1947 - November 30, 1997
I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.
Kathy Acker
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I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.
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I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.
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I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.
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I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.
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I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.
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I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.
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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.
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One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
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Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.
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That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.
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The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.
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