Katherine Dunn Quotes

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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.

  Katherine Dunn

  Winning, Use, Freak

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Mar 05, 2017

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• 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.

  Katherine Dunn

  Magic, Age, Trouble

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Jun 02, 2013

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• The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

  Katherine Dunn

  Lying, Comfort, Insult

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Feb 17, 2017

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• There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

  Katherine Dunn

  Brain, Behaviour, Mediocrity

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Jan 29, 2012

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• Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

  Katherine Dunn

  Stories, Doorways, Intersections

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• I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

  Katherine Dunn

  Unique, Glimpse, Normalcy

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.309, Vintage

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• When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.

  Katherine Dunn

  Papa, Hens, Crystals

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Nov 27, 2015

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

  Katherine Dunn

  Glasses, Milk, Staggering

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.48, Vintage

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• It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.

  Katherine Dunn

  Dog, Fashion, Real

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.384, Vintage

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• A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

  Katherine Dunn

  Freak, Born, Made

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.36, Vintage

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• Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At times like that the only way out is for me to decide, 'To hell with it. I can't do it right, so I'll do it wrong. I can't do it well, but I can do it badly.' Sometimes, with luck, while I'm sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.

  Katherine Dunn

  Beautiful, Mistake, Luck

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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.

  Katherine Dunn

  Life, Baby, Believe

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Jul 23, 2015

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• I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

  Katherine Dunn

  Thinking, Research, Areas

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

  Katherine Dunn

  Everyday, Research, Medical

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• There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.

  Katherine Dunn

  Men, Texas, Years

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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.

  Katherine Dunn

  Struggle, Survival, Tools

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Sep 02, 2012

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

  Katherine Dunn

  Heart, Bees, Like You

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• We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

  Katherine Dunn

  Innocence, Forgetfulness, Stamina

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.150, Vintage

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• Basically, we are pack animals. We may be evolving toward hive animals. The nature of the pack is that if all the eyes of the pack are on you, you are either the leader, or you are lunch. So it's a basically hazardous situation to have the eyes of the pack upon you. And I think that's really visceral. I think that's bred in the bone. That's species - deep.

  Katherine Dunn

  Eye, Thinking, Animal

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak.

  Katherine Dunn

  Sweet, Men, Feminist

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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• A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy, rained-out afternoon midway always hit my chest with a sweet ache. The colored dance of lights in the seeping air flashed the puddles in the sawdust with an oily glamour.

  Katherine Dunn

  Sweet, Rain, Light

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Oct 18, 2012

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• How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia.

  Katherine Dunn

  Evil, Childhood, Darkness

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.150, Vintage

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• Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident.

  Katherine Dunn

  Feels, Courses

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• I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from within, and that is how it evolves.

  Katherine Dunn

  Color, Texture, Layers

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• My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.

  Katherine Dunn

  Animal, Reflection, Painting

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