Giving Quote by Katherine Dunn

“The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.”

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…

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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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Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.…

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The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist…

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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