Quotes by Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn

[I] am reading No Ordinary Joes. Should have had a medical checkup before I started it. Colton makes us fall in love with these guys, then puts our hearts in harm’s way. It’s lovely and ghastly and extremely powerful. His best yet.

Falling In Love

Powerful

Reading

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.

Light

Rain

Sweet

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

Born

Freak

Made

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

Long

Romance

War

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.

Military

Soldier

Terrorist Groups

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

Boys

Fighting

Men

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.

Animal

Eye

Thinking

Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards. Just a few months before I’d had no idea whether my reproductive equipment worked. There was no evidence. But that week I had become a full-fledged bleeder and was still absorbed by this first change in myself that I had ever noticed. The click and buzz of my synapses kept making the same connection. If you can change, you can also end. Death had always been a theory to me. Now I knew. The terror hurt good and I nursed it and played it like a loose tooth.

Feet

Hurt

Ideas

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

People

Thinking

Writing

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

Animation

Book

Thinking

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Age

Air

Animal

Animation

Areas

Athlete

Baby

Beautiful

Bees

Behaviour

Believe

Book

Born

Boxing

Boys

Brain

Bravery

Care

Cat

Childhood

Children

Choices

Coincidence

Color

Comfort

Courses

Crystals

Culture

Darkness

Directors

Dog

Doorways

Earthquakes

Enough

Everyday

Evil

Eye

Falling In Love

Fashion

Feels

Feet

Female

Feminist

Fighting

Forgetfulness

Freak

Giving

Glasses

Glimpse

Going Away

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Quotes by Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn

[I] am reading No Ordinary Joes. Should have had a medical checkup before I started it. Colton makes us fall in love with these guys, then puts our hearts in harm’s way. It’s lovely and ghastly and extremely powerful. His best yet.

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

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

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.

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

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

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

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