Katherine Dunn Quotes

An intimate core of my being recognizes that there is nothing in me that can go on: there is no spark; there is no infestation of vaporous miasma that has the capacity to continue, and there is nothing in me that wishes to continue. This moment is, for me, all that there is, and I'm willing to accept it. I'm a worm; I have no soul.

Katherine Dunn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.

John Cleese

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Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It's government's job to make sure it can be done safely.

John Hickenlooper

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Value-first is a perception. If your customer does not perceive it as value, then it's not very valuable.

Jeffrey Gitomer

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It is altogether proper for people to recognize a sovereign God.

Roy Moore

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Believe me, I bash liberals for being mean-spirited and angry, but there are plenty on my side who are the same way.

Mike Gallagher

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When you're finished, bars are not inherently profitable. You got to work at them to make them profitable.

Jon Taffer

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I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere.

Christopher Meloni

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I'm always interested in something that's missing.

Clive Cussler

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Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.

Brendon Burchard

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To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.

Alfred Russel Wallace

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We treat a planet at crisis point as an externality that can be shunted into a future generation. We continue to act as if we had the natural resources of several planets, not one.

Winnie Byanyima

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The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after rumors spread that its founder, Joseph Smith, had taken up the practice of polygamy. While denying the charge in public, by 1843 Smith had shared a revelation with his closest disciples.

Scott Anderson

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