The dead read books with
a lot of pages . . . They have
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—Kathy Acker, The Book of Haiku Revelation
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December 7, 2015Support independent psychotronic fiction! (pt. 2)
December 7, 2015
Art that is eating
the spectator interests
me more than beauty
—Marcel Duchamp, The Book of Haiku Revelation
Mao Zedong
August 4, 2015***************
A revolution
is a dinner party on
an empty belly
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A revolution
is a hundred flowers of
blood embroidery
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A revolution
is direct experience
of art for art’s sake
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A revolution
is writing eating the head
of literature
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A revolution
is not communism, it is
love of communism
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A revolution
is too many books for the
dull-witted masses
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A revolution
is the flourishing death of
reactionaries
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A revolution
is detached from politics
and economics
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A revolution
is an atom bomb at the
bottom of a well
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A revolution
is the contradiction of
the revolution
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Sigmund Freud
May 16, 2015***************
Sometimes a cigar
is just a half-tamed demon,
a burning male id
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The virtuous man
oozes wicked thoughts from his
very fingertips
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Immorality
is the full grandeur of the
soul’s authority
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The royal road to
the unconscious leads to the
tyrant called Mother
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Renunciation
is the magical power
to disavow God
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The libidinal
components of a horse will
cure uncertainty
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Blissful confusion
contrasts very little with
human happiness
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A poet contents
himself with the illusion
that word is conscience
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Civilization
is the pathological
love of liberty
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Seneca
March 11, 2015***************
Virtue is a vice
when it wears the mask of God’s
common dominion
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All nature is a
recognition of art’s gift
to adversity
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Labor injures the
mind; its only remedy
is the shrift of gold
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Hatred impairs one’s
self-respect, but vengeance is
fortune’s great favor
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Be silent, and if
you can’t be silent know that
we’re not listening
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Consult a madman
on all things and steer in a
favorable wind
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A fool knows not that
recognizable order
is never maintained
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Deny admittance
to the passions and life is
onerous solace
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The infirmity
of language shrivels before
the terror of law
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Live among men as
if you are unable to
bear humanity
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Alan Dershowitz
January 5, 2015***************
Israel is Ed
Koch, the Second Amendment,
and God in a dream
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The Ten Commandments
are like the Supreme Court with
even more damage
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Freedom of speech means
Jesus was resurrected—
so we can relax
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Hypocrisy is
the moral high ground; it’s just
ambiguity
***************
The threat of Hell is
merely justification
for doing nothing
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Though the Bible may
violate the Geneva
Accords, it’s still true
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Asymmetrical
warfare is flipping burgers
in a synagogue
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Pretending you’re a
fetus is not the same as
being a fetus
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Calling Obama
a ticking-bomb paranoid
is a euphemism
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Karl Kraus
November 6, 2014***************
A woman in short
pants is the handmaiden of
sex education
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The trouble with Kant
is his idealism is
worse than syphilis
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Virginity is
a wastrel’s passion; it will
deflower morals
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A poorly repressed
shoe fetishist has no time
to be a loafer
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Democracy is
an old miser who attracts
beggars, dogs and thieves
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Christian martyrdom
is a lifestyle that has stood
every test of time
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When I plagiarize,
it unsettles the whole world—
it’s an art earthquake
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Science is a crutch
for those exhausted by their
imagination
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Squeeze human nature
into matrimony and
endanger the world
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Journalism is an
abortion of thought and the
mother of all lies
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Jeff Koons
September 19, 2014***************
Advertising is
a humanitarian
act. Fundraising too.
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I’ve always enjoyed
the avant-garde: Disney, Pop,
the Church, Germany
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The invisible
fabric that holds the market
together is love
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Surrealism is
the waiting list of Dada’s
communal courage
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Morality is
not responsibility,
it is transcendence
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Every painting is
metaphysical candy,
a surface gesture
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A museum is
the one place where money is
gift-wrapping paper
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Art is a mundane
fetish of energy, a
box of reaction
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Politics is like
the biology of trees,
a Bambi closet
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Consumerism is
really found within you—
it’s self-expansion
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Harold Pinter
August 12, 2014***************
Apart from the known
unknown, there is the real
unreal: the past
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The greatest thing God
created on earth is the
dust of true desire
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Language is a failed
stratagem to cover the
nakedness of art
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Propaganda is
the collateral damage
of the status quo
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Death is about five
thousand million years old—it’s
a long piece of work
***************
America is
like trying to be a good
boy with your balls out
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The Republican
Party is the squalid fact
of dictatorship
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The theater is
a mirror beyond reason,
a clinical kiss
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Ionesco
June 29, 2014***************
Capitulation
is the secret nostalgia
of revolution
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Ideology
is incomprehensible;
so is a dog’s nose
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No question can be
answered with “God,” “Art,” “Beauty,”
or “civil servants”
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No political
system can deliver us
from the pain of words
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Surrealism is
the absolute fertilized
with the grace of time
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I have always been
suspicious of fate—it’s a
logical prison
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Eternity is
the gateway to a deeper
misunderstanding
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Posterity is
the restitution of the
crime of history
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Don DeLillo
June 5, 2014***************
Football is lovely
theater for people who
long for the last things
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America is
a secret arrangement with
the language of doom
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The madness of the
President is the madness
of an innocent
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Eating is the deep
narrative structure of life—
the rest is obscure
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Quit your job, quit your
endless consumption and live
the dead dream of jazz
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All comparisons
end in the fantasy of
juxtaposition
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The future belongs
to the ghouls of state power
and their thirsty jails
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The moral force of
technology is the end
of society
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Catholicism is
a concentrated form of
popular culture
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The person who stands
outside literature will
drown in aimless words
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What is the value
of Abstract Expressionism?
How to measure pain?
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Ai Weiwei
April 28, 2014***************
I am obsessed with
the iPhone—it is the North
Korea of life
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The Internet is
the spontaneous control
of free expression
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Twitter is like a
bird’s nest of corruption in
a tree of sorrow
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A society
that values contemplation
will suppress dissent
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The architecture
of state surveillance will crush
the United States
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A nation that has
no censorship will have no
art worth discussing
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A bureaucrat who
whispers has the power to
survive anything
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Ideology
without music is like a
poem without words
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Aquinas
April 20, 2014***************
It is requisite
for the relaxation of
the mind to bear sin
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Because we cannot
know what God is, we live by
faith’s poetic myths
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Law: an ordinance
of reason made by him who
has care of evil
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A man cannot live
without the sorrow of his
carnal addictions
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Beware of the book
of knowledge; it is but a
material thing
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The active power
of the male seed tends to the
production of death
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Nothing on this earth
is prized more than a woman’s
playful endowments
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In order for a
war to be just, it requires
no explanation
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Life’s greatest pleasure
is the tedious pursuit
of true salvation
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Hemingway
April 3, 2014***************
Profanity is
like drilling rock and blasting
life out with charges
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I have learned a great
deal from listening to fools,
failures and jackals
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Grace under pressure
is hunting drunk when you’ve shot
one bird all damn day
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A typewriter is
a weapon; a novel is
a war to the end
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Innocence marks the
permanent ruin of an
intelligent man
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Love is not for the
sweet butterfly; love is for
the bloody buzzard
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Politics is like
bullfighting: revoltingly
solemn and funny
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Suicide is the
shortest answer to any
problem except death
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Happiness is the
tendency to feel moral
when you’re immoral
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