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Quote by Kathy Acker

“Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.”

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This book is a compilation of essays that delve into diverse topics, offering insights and perspectives on a wide range of subjects. more

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Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker was an American novelist known for her experimental writing style and critical explorations of gender, power, and culture. Her works often blended historical, literary, and philosophical elements, challenging traditional narrative structures. more

“Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is no movement through space and no life and no fear. To be aware of death is to be alive is to fear is to move around in space and time toward death.”

Ends Moving Life Is Fear Space Alive Movement All Time Time And Space No Fear Fear Of Death

Author:Tao Lin

“Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.”

People Should Persons Different Hands Minutes Staring Combat Depressing Hilarious Andrew

Author:Tao Lin

“So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Self Found Forget Know How Focus Fame Demand Satisfied Rest Of Your Life Indulgence Think Of You Self Indulgence

Book:The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle

Source: The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle

“My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.’” She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn’t easy.”

Mother Night Literature Easy Heard Died Raised Bones Southern Daddy Mama Hog

Book:A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life

Source: A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life

“Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.”

Feels Writing Wells Care Irreplaceable

Author:Andre Gide

“This is the only country in the world, that worries about what it is. The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are.”

Knows World Needs Looks Heart Said Soul Country Worry Stillness Wednesday Norway American Gods Mozambique

Author:Neil Gaiman

“truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.”

Ifs World Long Has Beens Said Enjoy Quality This World Cold Comfortable Long Time Warmth Contrast Small Parts