All Katherine Dunn Quotes
I think that it's really important to go away and come back.
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Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.
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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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Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.
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We're 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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The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
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I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.
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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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Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.
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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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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.
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Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
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I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.
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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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