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Kathy Acker

"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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"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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"Men are the dreams of a shadow."

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"I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep."

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"While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put."

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"Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real."

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"At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world."

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"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?"

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"People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need."

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"Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for."

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"I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer."

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"You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison."

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"I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them."
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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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"First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic."
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"I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way."
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"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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"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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"And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool."
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