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Explore our hand-picked selection of 64 inspiring quotes by Katherine Dunn.

About Katherine Dunn

  • Born: October 24, 1945
  • Died: May 11, 2016
  • Occupation: Novelist
    • 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 within, and that is how it evolves.
    Color Texture Layers
    My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.
    Animal Reflection Painting
    Giving papa time to think, as arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. the odds favored dramatic results.
    Thinking Odds Giving
    Oh, of course, i always feel unconfident.
    Feels Courses
    Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
    Athlete Training Female
    I think that it's really important to go away and come back.
    Thinking Important Going Away
    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.
    Book Thinking Directors
    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.
    Evil Childhood Darkness
    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.
    Strong Pull Ups Return
    Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, chickens,and cats, feeding the underworld of dirt creatures. and somewhere, myfather's ashes mingle with birds, air, and sea.
    Cat Rivers Air
    My perception of the human animal is as an extremely dangerous predator. that's who i perceive us to be as a species. maybe the most dangerous predator on the planet, with the exception of a few microbes. i'm really grateful for the degree of socialization that prevents us, most of the time, from killing and eating each other. and i admire all the social structures that have been designed and layered and niched in that encourage bonding toward a kind of social harmony that is meant to contain and counteract our natural inclinations toward predation, ferocity, and eating whatever moves.
    Moving Grateful Animal
    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, rained-out afternoon midway always hit my chest with a sweet ache. the colored dance of lights in the seeping air flashed the puddles in the sawdust with an oily glamour.
    Sweet Rain Light
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