Katherine Dunn quotes

Every doorway, every intersection has a story. (Katherine Dunn)
I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out. View quote
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Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them. View quote
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American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. View quote
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Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. View quote
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Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless. View quote
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They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born. View quote
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A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born. View quote
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In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool. View quote
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And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet. View quote
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I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area. (Katherine Dunn)
Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do. View quote
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He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable. View quote
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Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown. View quote
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What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering. View quote
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But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on. View quote
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I come from a family of great readers and storytellers. View quote
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Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea. View quote
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But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie. View quote
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I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object. View quote
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The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men. (Katherine Dunn)
But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture. View quote
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This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes. View quote
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There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of the land. View quote
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I think that it's really important to go away and come back. View quote
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Katherine Dunn

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Occupation: American Novelist
Born: October 24, 1945
Died: May 11, 2016
Quotes count: 47
Wikipedia: Katherine Dunn

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