Kathy Acker

(57 votes)   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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(51 votes)   And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.

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(43 votes)   Burroughs was a very political writer.

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(16 votes)   But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.

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(17 votes)   But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.

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(19 votes)   First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

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(17 votes)   I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.

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(52 votes)   I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

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(56 votes)   I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

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(38 votes)   I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

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(47 votes)   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.

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(22 votes)   I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

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(40 votes)   I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

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(48 votes)   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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(17 votes)   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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