Best Katherine Dunn Quotes
- Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident. Always Feel
- Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees. Bees
- 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,… Ache
- 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… All
- 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… Any
- My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals... All
- American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. American
- But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on. Everybody
- 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… Age
- Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. Death
- This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes. Aggressive
- 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… Comfort
- 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… Crystal
- He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true.… Amazed
- 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
- 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… Ads
- I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His… Anyone
- 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… Each
- 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… Acts
- My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves. All
- There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too… Crack
- 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… According
- There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough. Die
- It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see… Adults
- A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born. Born