"Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run."

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Source : Kathy Acker (1989). “Blood and Guts in High School”, p.125, Grove Press

Kathy Acker

#Running Quotes #Pain Quotes #World Quotes

“Youâ€™d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. Youâ€™d resist the temptation to dabble. Youâ€™d make more good decisions and youâ€™d make more big decisions.”
“What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and identifying itself? By what means shall its inchoate and amorphous estate be organized into effective political action relevant to present social needs and opportunities? What has happened to the public in the century and a half since the theory of political democracy was urged with such assurance and hope?”
“It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore”
“To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.”
“I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool.”

Source : Alan Goldsher (2010). “Paul Is Undead”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
“We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.”
“If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character”
“Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.”

Source : "Need to Meet: Kate Mara". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.marieclaire.com. April 19, 2010.

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