American - Novelist | October 24, 1945 - May 11, 2016
Boxing gyms are more than training facilities. They are sanctuaries in bad neighborhoods for troubled kids and shrines to the traditions of the sport. The gym is home. For many, it's the safest place they know.
Katherine Dunn
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A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another.
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I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.
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The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and closer, then below, to the worms and the centipede.
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People have been trying for centuries to manipulate genes, enhance certain traits, and achieve racial purity, even in humans. And of course I thought of the Nazis and their efforts toward Aryan magnificence.
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I hate to tell you this, but I did not know what the National Book Award was when I got the call.
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I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.
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My background is standard American blue collar of the itchy-footed variety. We're new-world mongrels. The women in the family read horoscopes, tea leaves, coffee bubbles, Tarot cards and palms.
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My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
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My dad was a third-generation printer and linotype operator, by all accounts a fabulous ballroom dancer. He was jettisoned from the family before I was 2, and I have never met him and have no memory of him.
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A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
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Behind every locked door on Skid Road are a thousand stories.
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