Katherine Dunn Quotes

I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to respond to beauty by answering its discovery with a new beauty.

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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I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

Maurice Sendak

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New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.

Alvaro Enrigue

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To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.

Stanley Hauerwas

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We can change the world, but not improve it, if we do not have peace.

Sri Chinmoy

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The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.

Russ Feingold

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After two decades of personal finance reporting, I've heard every excuse in the book for not saving money. That said, none of them really hold up - at least over the long term.

Jean Chatzky

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I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.

Donna Murphy

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My books are written with a strong chronological spine.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Football is an elective. It's a game. It's make-believe. And to think that people have brain damage from some made-up game.

Chris Borland

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When someone comes in with a product they want in Bed Bath & Beyond, that's way out of my comfort zone.

Chris Sacca

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I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

Claire Danes

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Demanding abrupt and expensive changes in public policy raises fair questions about ideological intentions.

Bret Stephens

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