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Katherine Dunn Quote: “The hope you get from religion is a three-ring, all-star hope because the risk is outrageous.”

51. “The hope you get from religion is a three-ring, all-star hope because the risk is outrageous.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.”

52. “Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “The old man is spread out on the worm buffet and.”

53. “The old man is spread out on the worm buffet and.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.”

54. “But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.”

55. “Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “My heart died. Arty would despise her. But Mama told me to go on hoping. “Go ahead and love her,” Mama said. I’ve wondered since whether those were Mama’s last words, the final sizzle of her synapses.”

56. “My heart died. Arty would despise her. But Mama told me to go on hoping. “Go ahead and love her,” Mama said. I’ve wondered since whether those were Mama’s last words, the final sizzle of her synapses.”

— Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn Quote: “All he had to do to make me like him was need me. All he had to do to make Arty like him was drop dead.”

57. “All he had to do to make me like him was need me. All he had to do to make Arty like him was drop dead.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “The whiskey looks like transparent wood in my glass.”

58. “The whiskey looks like transparent wood in my glass.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.”

59. “My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.”

60. “Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “Taxis are expensive for moderately employed dwarfs who rent extra apartments, swim at private clubs, and fancy themselves as righteous assassins.”

61. “Taxis are expensive for moderately employed dwarfs who rent extra apartments, swim at private clubs, and fancy themselves as righteous assassins.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “Their bodies lifted up, clean and simple to her in the clear, unconscious awareness of each of their cells’ sensing that she would grunt out strong young.”

62. “Their bodies lifted up, clean and simple to her in the clear, unconscious awareness of each of their cells’ sensing that she would grunt out strong young.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating.”

63. “I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “I stared in silence as Miranda swooped, shrieking, down the playground slide, searching to see alive in her all the dead love in me.”

64. “I stared in silence as Miranda swooped, shrieking, down the playground slide, searching to see alive in her all the dead love in me.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “He had Oly letter a little card that he taped on his wall. The thing read, ‘The only liars bigger than the quack are the quack’s patients.’ Arty used to just keep me in stitches. Eleven years old he was then.”

65. “He had Oly letter a little card that he taped on his wall. The thing read, ‘The only liars bigger than the quack are the quack’s patients.’ Arty used to just keep me in stitches. Eleven years old he was then.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood.”

66. “It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “I sit, tired of reading. I am sick of books. I can’t tell where I leave off and the books begin. I’m nobody. I’m a polluted nothing. A confessed sin, an open door, the clutterer in the clutter.”

67. “I sit, tired of reading. I am sick of books. I can’t tell where I leave off and the books begin. I’m nobody. I’m a polluted nothing. A confessed sin, an open door, the clutterer in the clutter.”

— Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn Quote: “But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don’t write should be stomped on.”

68. “But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don’t write should be stomped on.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “I ran back dithering, chewing my hands in fright, until Arty finally allowed himself to roll slowly over and drift, belly up, toward the surface, where my short arms could reach him with the crook and tow him to the side. I patted and smoothed his water-swollen scalp and kissed his cheeks and nose and ears, weeping and begging him not to be dead because I, useless though I was, loved him.”

69. “I ran back dithering, chewing my hands in fright, until Arty finally allowed himself to roll slowly over and drift, belly up, toward the surface, where my short arms could reach him with the crook and tow him to the side. I patted and smoothed his water-swollen scalp and kissed his cheeks and nose and ears, weeping and begging him not to be dead because I, useless though I was, loved him.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “Things were slipping on me – oranges at first – then everything.”

70. “Things were slipping on me – oranges at first – then everything.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “I’d put myself to sleep only there’s nobody to do my job.”

71. “I’d put myself to sleep only there’s nobody to do my job.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “It was becoming apparent that Chick himself had only one ambition and that was to help everybody so much that they would love him.”

72. “It was becoming apparent that Chick himself had only one ambition and that was to help everybody so much that they would love him.”

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Katherine Dunn Quote: “We need that warm adult stupidity. Even knowing the illusion, we cry and hide in their laps, speaking only of defiled lollipops or lost bears, and getting a lollipop or a toy bear’s worth of comfort. We make do with it rather than face alone the cavernous reaches of our skulls for which there is no remedy, no safety, no comfort at all. We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.”

73. “We need that warm adult stupidity. Even knowing the illusion, we cry and hide in their laps, speaking only of defiled lollipops or lost bears, and getting a lollipop or a toy bear’s worth of comfort. We make do with it rather than face alone the cavernous reaches of our skulls for which there is no remedy, no safety, no comfort at all. We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.”

— Katherine Dunn

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