My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. — 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
Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards.… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“Just as a snowflake went on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, the pumpkin patch is… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private… — 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
