Katherine Dunn Quotes

We live with a distinct double standard about male and female aggression. Women's aggression isn't considered real. It isn't dangerous; it's only cute. Or it's always self-defense or otherwise inspired by a man. In the rare case where a woman is seen as genuinely responsible, she is branded a monster - an 'unnatural' woman.

Katherine Dunn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.

Jerry Saltz

WorkCulturePeopleOpportunities

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

TodayTomorrowNeverStarted

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

John Henry Carver

MathematicsPhysicsUniversity

I was good at math and science, and it was expected that I would attend the University of Washington in Seattle and become an engineer. But by the time I was seventeen, I was ready to leave home, a decision my parents agreed to support if I could obtain a scholarship. MIT did not grant me one, but the University of Chicago did.

Robert Lucas, Jr.

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I know Peter Jackson a tiny-tiny bit from interviewing him about the 'Lord of the Rings' movies over the years. When I was visiting the set of 'The Return of the King,' he let me be an extra so I could see filmmaking from a different perspective. I was a Rohan soldier.

Jeff Giles

PerspectiveKingMeFilmmakingKnow

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

Robert Collier

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I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction.

Robert Crais

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If a company is not a monopoly, then the law assumes market competition can restrain the company's actions. No problem. If a monopoly exists, but the monopoly does not engage in acts designed to destroy competition, then we can assume that it earned and is keeping its monopoly the pro-consumer way: by out-innovating its competitors.

Marvin Ammori

CompetitionLawProblemWayCompany

The Internet isn't just itself a revolution - it sometimes starts them, too.

Marvin Ammori

RevolutionInternetSometimesJust

What's love if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get back once lost? What's hate if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get rid of once found?

Brian Celio

LoveHateYouBackLostEverything

Nothing about 'Brotherhood' is ever wrapped up in a nice package.

Annabeth Gish

BrotherhoodNiceNothingUpPackage

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.

Antonio Tabucchi

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