Katherine Dunn

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#lying #truth #love

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#love

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#been #believer #discovered #early #early age

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#individuality #maniacal #humor

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#love

It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#love

A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#love

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#getting-old #age

The classic definition of slapstick runs along the line of, "Funny is someone else ramming his face repeatedly into a brick wall. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#family

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

— Katherine Dunn

#become #book #good #i #i think