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I had been confused why I had gotten cancer. Three weeks later, I saw the network of causation so clearly I wondered why I wasn't more disease-riddled. My healer reminded me that if health is based on forgiveness, then I had to forgive ...

— Kathy Acker The Gift of Disease (1996)

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The German Romantics had to destroy the same bastions we do.

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Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

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The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in.

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"Why are they ashamed and miserable?"
"They're repenting they're white.

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It's all up to you, girls. You have to be strong. These are the days of post-women's liberation. You have grown up by now and you have to take care of yourself. No one's going to help you.

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