People Quote by Katherine Dunn

“My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.”

Katherine Dunn

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Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.

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

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I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

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A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another.

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My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume every day…

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Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later,…

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There should be unemployment insurance for fictional people.

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My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it…

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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.…

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Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

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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…

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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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I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music.

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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

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