Source: Empire of the Senseless
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Famous Kathy Acker Quotes
“There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it”
Source: Bodies of Work: Essays
“Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.”
Source: Blood and Guts in High School
“The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.”
“The whole world is men's bloody fantasies.”
Source: Empire of the Senseless
“GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.”
Source: Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker
Source: My Mother: Demonology
“I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.”
Source: Hannibal Lecter, my father
“Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.”
“Thats what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.”
“Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.”
“The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.”
Source: Bodies of Work: Essays
Source: Empire of the Senseless
“I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.”
Source: Eurydice in the Underworld
Source: Hannibal Lecter, my father
Source: Blood and Guts in High School
Source: Pussy, king of the pirates
“First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.”
“I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.”