Katherine Dunn quotes - page 2

We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course. (Katherine Dunn)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough. View quote
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She is suspicious and fearless and her progress is alarming. View quote
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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. View quote
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Show off' was no insult in our family, but Arty had a way of turning 'sweetheart' into a thumb in the eye. View quote
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There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behavior 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. These are frequently artists and performers, adventurers and wide-life devotees. Then there are those who feel their own strangeness and are terrified by it. They struggle toward normalcy. They suffer to exactly that degree that they are unable to appear normal to others, or to convince themselves that their aberration does not exist. These are true freaks, who appear, almost always, conventional and dull. View quote
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The molasses voice pours into the sponge ear of the microphone and is transformed into silent, pulsing waves that radiate over a hundred miles. View quote
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I wanted to cry, loud and wet with the pain of love. (Katherine Dunn)
The whiskey is amazing to me. I wonder why I never realized that I would like it. I wonder why I never tried it before. Liking it so much is dangerous now, and so I hold it and look through it, and drink it very slowly. View quote
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She blurbed through her Moms-All-Purpose-Adjustable-List-Of-Horrors that might have happened whenever a child is out of sight. View quote
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And they looked at her, watched her, wanted to squirt her full of baby juice. View quote
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I had maggot brains that night and may have imagined half of it, and misunderstood the rest. View quote
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It may be that the impressions of her infancy are caught somehow in the pulp of her eyes, luring her. Or there may be some hooked structure in her cells that twist her toward all that the world calls freakish. View quote
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Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are. View quote
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But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here. View quote
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The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power. View quote
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The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized. View quote
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Papa had looked bad last time. This time he looked like Death's rectum. (Katherine Dunn)
Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident. View quote
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