Katherine Dunn Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident.

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

Crystal Lil, her door propped open, sits in front of the television with a pan in her lap, a brown bag at her feet. She

The hope you get from religion is a three-ring, all-star hope because the risk is outrageous.
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Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.

But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

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.

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.

The top head would have controlled everything and made his poor little butt-brother miserable.

I think that it's really important to go away and come back.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

The classic definition of slapstick runs along the line of, Funny is someone else ramming his face repeatedly into a brick wall.

Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.

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.

I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating.

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.

But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.