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• 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.

  Katherine Dunn

  Color, Texture, Layers

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• I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.

  Katherine Dunn

  Mother, Healing, Eye

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• The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

  Katherine Dunn

  Men, Female, Growing

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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• Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards. Just a few months before I'd had no idea whether my reproductive equipment worked. There was no evidence. But that week I had become a full-fledged bleeder and was still absorbed by this first change in myself that I had ever noticed. The click and buzz of my synapses kept making the same connection. If you can change, you can also end. Death had always been a theory to me. Now I knew. The terror hurt good and I nursed it and played it like a loose tooth.

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  Hurt, Feet, Ideas

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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.

  Katherine Dunn

  Book, Thinking, Animation

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• 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.

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  Cat, Rivers, Air

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• 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

  Strong, Pull Ups, Return

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.425, Vintage

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• 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.

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  Evil, Childhood, Darkness

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.150, Vintage

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• 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.

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  Book, Thinking, Directors

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• I think that it's really important to go away and come back.

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  Thinking, Important, Going Away

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• Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

  Katherine Dunn

  Athlete, Training, Female

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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• Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident.

  Katherine Dunn

  Feels, Courses

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• 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.

  Katherine Dunn

  Sweet, Rain, Light

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Oct 18, 2012

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• Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.

  Katherine Dunn

  Iron, Parent, Sometimes

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