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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
Novelist
Poet
Radio Personality
Sportswriter
Writer
Garden City
Kansas
Katherine Karen Dunn
Stamina
Forgetfulness
Adulthood
Sheer
Innocence
Escape
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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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Every doorway, every intersection has a story.
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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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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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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.
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Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.
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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.
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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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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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Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.
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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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Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.
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I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.
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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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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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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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Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
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