"I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life"
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Flynt’s context matters: a 1960s-era artist and provocateur orbiting Fluxus and the downtown avant-garde, he treated art less as objects than as tactics for living. The subtext is anti-romantic and anti-institutional. “Different mode” suggests not just personal preference but a refusal of the available scripts: careerism, consumer comfort, even the art world’s own rituals of prestige. He frames the self as a site of production, where consciousness, language, and habits can be retooled. It’s an artist’s sentence that quietly smuggles in a political wager: that changing how you live is more radical than changing what you believe.
The wording also dodges grandstanding. “Trying” admits friction. “Assemble” admits scavenging and improvisation. It’s the voice of someone who knows alternative living isn’t a vibe; it’s infrastructure. The line lands because it treats liberation as logistics - and that’s exactly why it feels credible.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Flynt, Henry. (2026, January 16). I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-trying-to-assemble-materials-for-a-different-82681/
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Flynt, Henry. "I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-trying-to-assemble-materials-for-a-different-82681/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-trying-to-assemble-materials-for-a-different-82681/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.






