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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

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Katherine Dunn
Age: 70 †
Born: 1945
Born: October 24
Died: 2016
Died: May 11
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Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.
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Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.
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It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.
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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.
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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.
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But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.
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Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.
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My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.
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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.
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In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
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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.
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The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort
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