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 More Quotes by Kathy Acker More Quotes From Kathy Acker I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it. Kathy Acker book people Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run. Kathy Acker pain running world 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 insane order people The whole world is men's bloody fantasies. Kathy Acker atheism fear men Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else. Kathy Acker mind I'm very staid compared to my students, actually. Kathy Acker students Dreams are manifestations of identities. Kathy Acker manifestation identity dream A novel is a book with a lot of pages. Kathy Acker pages novel book I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because Im not so censored when I use dream material. Kathy Acker dream writing people 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. Kathy Acker love-each-other surface easy All memory can do is scream for touch. Kathy Acker scream can-do memories You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's text that create identity. That's how I got interested in plagiarism. Kathy Acker plagiarism identity interesting There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it Kathy Acker secret bother book It's all up to you, girls. You have to be strong. These are the days of post-women's liberation. You have grown up by now and you have to take care of yourself. No one's going to help you. Kathy Acker up-to-you girl strong Culture is that which falsifies. Kathy Acker culture A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates. Kathy Acker connections language writing I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent. Kathy Acker innocent want mean Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express. Kathy Acker machines expression writing Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning. Kathy Acker hunger poverty worry I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in wonder. Now, I know, as much as I can know anything, that to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or, by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates know. There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate. Kathy Acker dream book children
