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

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Katherine Dunn
Age: 70 †
Born: 1945
Born: October 24
Died: 2016
Died: May 11
Journalist
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Poet
Radio Personality
Sportswriter
Writer
Garden City
Kansas
Katherine Karen Dunn
Stamina
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Adulthood
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Innocence
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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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I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.
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Freedom within any kind of social structure - the whole issue of exactly what the human animal is - is an ongoing preoccupation of mine. And I certainly don't think I've come to the end of that exploration, and with any luck, I never will. But I'm very curious about exactly what kind of beast we are. We're so complicated.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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In my next life, I plan to be a more respectable creature. For now, this is what is given to us. So I don't know - I think we're all freaks at heart. I think some people strive desperately to be normal, and I think other people strive to be abnormal.
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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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My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.
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This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.
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Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.
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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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But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.
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Every doorway, every intersection has a story.
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Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident.
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[I] am reading No Ordinary Joes. Should have had a medical checkup before I started it. Colton makes us fall in love with these guys, then puts our hearts in harm's way. It's lovely and ghastly and extremely powerful. His best yet.
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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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Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.
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