“It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“What greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?” — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
In boxing, it just seemed to me from the time I was a very small child, we have a peculiarly civilized form… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“Understand, daughter, that the only reason for your existing was as a tribute to your uncle-father. You were meant to love him.… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“Dear daughter, I won't try to call my feeling for Arty love. Call it focus. My focus on Art was an ailment,… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“The child, screaming for refuge, senses how feeble a shelter the twig hut of grown-up awareness is. They claim strength, these parents,… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume every day… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later,… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behavior and claim… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
