American - Novelist | October 24, 1945 - May 11, 2016
I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
Katherine Dunn
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Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.
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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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But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.
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I think that it's really important to go away and come back.
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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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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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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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Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.
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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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But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
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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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