Katherine Dunn Quotes

Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private autism, a self-referential world in which the writer is omnipotent. Gravity, taxes, and death are mere options, subject to the writer's fancy.

Katherine Dunn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 24, 1945 - May 11, 2016

Topics

ResponsibilityDeathWorldSmall

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

Joe Slovo

WithoutSystemExistBeenIdeology

If you are killing a chicken and cooking a chicken, it has to taste like chicken. Veal has to taste like veal. You have to be able to identify what you're eating. One of my worst experiences is when I can't tell what I'm eating. It is a waste.

Joel Robuchon

CookingEatingYouChickenWorst

I am a political junkie. During a presidential campaign, I will often buy a couple of newspapers a day just to keep up.

John Ortberg

DayI AmPoliticalWillUpBuy

Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you, always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. All of a sudden, some of you people think I'm a bad guy?

John Mellencamp

GoodPeopleWaitFaceThinkYou

As a matter of principle, Republicans do not believe in federal price controls.

Jeb Hensarling

BelievePriceMatterPrinciple

I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political, are intimately acquainted with the classes of mankind among whom I have chiefly mingled, I may have seen men and manners in a different phasis from what is common, which may assist originality of thought.

Robert Burns

MenI AmThoughtPoliticalManners

I would like to be remembered as a responsible human being who handled business while also taking care of his family.

Rob Brown

FamilyBusinessCareResponsible

I have never been a member of a Tea Party.

Matt Bevin

TeaPartyNeverBeenMember

In the hierarchy of public lands, national parks by law have been above the rest: America's most special places, where natural beauty and all its attendant pleasures - quiet waters, the scents of fir and balsam, the hoot of an owl, and the dark of a night sky unsullied by city lights - are sacrosanct.

Michael Shnayerson

BeautySkyCityLawNatural Beauty

Man's world is the planet of inexperience.

Milan Kundera

ManWorldPlanetInexperience

A good meal is very important to me. When I have a bad meal, especially out, it's like I'm sitting in an airport during a flight delay. It's a part of my life I can't get back.

Josh Elliott

LifeGoodMeMy LifeBadBack

The more empathy you have and the more connected you are to society, the better off you'll be.

Jasmila Zbanic

EmpathySocietyBetterYouConnected

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