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" First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic. "
Kathy Acker
Think
Best
Writing
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" I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible. "
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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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" 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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" I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it. "
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" Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know. "
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" And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool. "
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Used
" I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them. "
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Half
Had
" I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever. "
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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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" I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it. "
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People
Understand
Books
" One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out. "
Kathy Acker
Think
Out
I Think
" 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 I'm not so censored when I use dream material. "
Kathy Acker
Me
Dreams
People
" I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used. "
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Once
Meant To Be
Used
" That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing. "
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Right-Wing
Figuring
Good
" There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now. "
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Right
Bad
Now
" But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is. "
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Voice
Clear
Idea
" I'm very staid compared to my students, actually. "
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Compared
Actually
Very
" I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it. "
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Work
Censor
Mean
" But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men. "
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Most
Guys
Than
" I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist? "
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Question
Understand
Differences
" 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. "
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Think
Dangerous
Country
" And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation. "
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Trying
Kind
Find
" I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff. "
Kathy Acker
Stuff
Reaction
Voice