"Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies."

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Source : Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail

Kathy Acker

#Listening Quotes #Might Quotes #Prophecy Quotes

“I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.'”

Source : Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868”, p.524, University of Pittsburgh Pre
“Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.”
“The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.”
“The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.”
“The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.”
“He had 'deep concerns' with the pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants under consideration by the group, calling it 'profoundly unfair' to legal immigrants.”
“Is Jesus a Saviour who saves you, or is he an assistant who helps you save yourself?”
“It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.”

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