Katherine Dunn Quotes

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

Katherine Dunn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FunHardFictionGrimEven

I don't think there's anything wrong with a little sweat. I'm always moving, so it's normal for me, and it actually makes my curly hair better because it gives it a bit more texture and volume.

Jillian Hervey

MeMovingHairThinkBetterWrong

Video games have always been a part of my life.

Jenova Chen

LifeVideo GamesMy LifeGamesBeen

There is no picturesque version of what self-care looks like; it's different for every person who wants to practice it.

Jenna Wortham

PracticeLooksPersonDifferentLike

Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.

Michael Horton

SayingWayMovementAmbiguityWhich

I love salads and vegetable sandwiches.

Torrey DeVitto

LoveSandwichesVegetableI Love

Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as 'employee satisfaction results' - might improve.

Tom Hodgkinson

HappinessPowerDayManagementFind

In the presidential debates back in 2008 and 2012, the candidates clearly didn't know how to make climate change resonate with voters - if they mentioned it at all.

Tom Steyer

ChangeBackClimate ChangeKnowHow

I experienced what can never be duplicated in the private sector - the communal aspect of VA.

Robert Wilkie

NeverExperiencedCommunalPrivate

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

Mary Shelley

GodPeopleThinkTeachHimRather

We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.

Michel Foucault

SocietyBehaviorBodyFindWherever

I never thought I would live this long.

Debbie Reynolds

LiveThoughtLongNeverWould

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Confucius

TruthArtAngerSpeakGoThree

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