Kathy Acker | Quotes

Kathy AckerKathy Acker18 Apr 1947

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  • ''“If you ask me what I want, Ill tell you. I want everything.” ''
  • ''“Dreams are manifestations of identities.” 
  • ''“Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. Im at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.” 
  • “Im 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 ...
  • ''“There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.” ''
Kathy Acker
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Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947[1][3] – November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer. She was influenced by the Black Mountain School poets, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, French critical theory, Car…

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