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Katherine Dunn Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Children Best Evil World Bad Done

I have a small vocabulary, which I move around fast.

Jerry Della Femina

Small Fast Vocabulary Move Around

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

Think Political Going Activity Well

I think a lot of L.A. is something like USC - this incredible white culture living in the midst of color, and no obvious reaction to it at all. I mean, they have guards at the gate at USC - guards at the gate of a major university! And the guards chase young black boys away - I've seen it, chasing 8-year-old boys.

Anna Deavere Smith

Culture Color Black Think Living

Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.

People Pressure Being Pastor Counsel

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

Michel Houellebecq

Strong Country Pessimism Any Dose

Globalization is the process by which markets integrate worldwide.

Process Globalization Markets Which

I had a drummer I really wanted to move to Nashville with me, and he's like, 'Naw, I can't go, man.' He never could pull the trigger. It's a big move. You just gotta be diehard - you gotta give it your all, you know.

Man Me You Go Know Drummer

In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country.

Douglas Brinkley

Business Heart City Country Now

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Technology You Powerful Wrong Go

I watched the 'Seven Samurai' a lot because I loved it growing up. I can't describe to you how powerful that was. When you're a kid, you can't watch an almost-three-hour movie, but this was a war I just never saw before, with these samurai. I could relate to it, just being poor.

War Growing Up Loved You Powerful

I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that's crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody's so afraid of this imaginary line of thought police that they forget their own personal safety.

Police People Safety Start Think

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

Life Love Love Is Think Risk Real

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