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Katherine Dunn Quotes

And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet Picture Quote #1

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc Picture Quote #1

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 what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood Picture Quote #1

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that’s always very flattering Picture Quote #1

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 down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them Picture Quote #1

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. Unavoidable Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 weakness and his ravening bitter needs were terrible, and beautiful, and irresistible as an earthquake. He scalded or smothered anyone he needed, but his needing and the hurt that it caused me were the most life I have ever had. Remember what a poor thing I have always been and forgive me Picture Quote #1

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 would do anything to be unique Picture Quote #1

My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves Picture Quote #1

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 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 Picture Quote #1

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown Picture Quote #1

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This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes Picture Quote #1

We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course Picture Quote #1

Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak Picture Quote #1

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me Picture Quote #1

In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It’s feeble to be an object. What’s the point of being loved in return, I’d ask myself Picture Quote #1

How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia Picture Quote #1

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We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness Picture Quote #1

Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees Picture Quote #1

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And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet (Katherine Dunn Quotes) American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc (Katherine Dunn Quotes) 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 what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood (Katherine Dunn Quotes) What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that’s always very flattering (Katherine Dunn Quotes) 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 down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them (Katherine Dunn Quotes) 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. Unavoidable (Katherine Dunn Quotes) 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 (Katherine Dunn Quotes) 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 weakness and his ravening bitter needs were terrible, and beautiful, and irresistible as an earthquake. He scalded or smothered anyone he needed, but his needing and the hurt that it caused me were the most life I have ever had. Remember what a poor thing I have always been and forgive me (Katherine Dunn Quotes) 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 would do anything to be unique (Katherine Dunn Quotes) My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves (Katherine Dunn Quotes) 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 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 (Katherine Dunn Quotes) Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown (Katherine Dunn Quotes) This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes (Katherine Dunn Quotes) We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course (Katherine Dunn Quotes) Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak (Katherine Dunn Quotes) It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me (Katherine Dunn Quotes) In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It’s feeble to be an object. What’s the point of being loved in return, I’d ask myself (Katherine Dunn Quotes) How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia (Katherine Dunn Quotes) We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness (Katherine Dunn Quotes) Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees (Katherine Dunn Quotes)

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