American - Novelist | October 24, 1945 - May 11, 2016
Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.
Katherine Dunn
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The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but with the best intentions ever.
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I thought if I just told the truth, the human truth, it'd be the truth for everyone.
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It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'
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Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.
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No, I've never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I'd been writing about the sport for a dozen years by then and wanted to know what boxers endured, what it felt like. I was too old to compete when I started, but I sparred enough to get a taste.
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Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous. We don't just deserve power, we have it. And power in this and every other society is not just the capacity to benefit those around us.
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It is time to recognize the variability of females, just as we do males.
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I'm just a regular Joe.
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In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's hand.
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Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.
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Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches.
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