“Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.”
Source: Blood and Guts in High School
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Kathy Acker 38
American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet 1947–1997Related quotes
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“I have never found anywhere, in the domain of art, that you don't have to walk to.”
The Language of the Night (1979)
Context: I have never found anywhere, in the domain of art, that you don't have to walk to. (There is quite an array of jets, buses and hacks which you can ride to Success; but that is a different destination.) It is a pretty wild country. There are, of course, roads. Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.
“I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”
Variant: I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
Lecture at Columbia University (28 April 1959)
“If people will listen, I will go anywhere in the world!”
“We have got the greatest testing program anywhere in the world.”
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