Quotes of Katherine Dunn - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. 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. ”

- Katherine Dunn

“ Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them. ”

- Katherine Dunn

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. ”

- Katherine Dunn

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet. ”

- Katherine Dunn

“ American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. ”

- 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

“ And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet. ”

- Katherine Dunn

“ American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. ”

- Katherine Dunn

“ And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet. ”

- Katherine Dunn

“ There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. ”

- Katherine Dunn

“ There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. ”

- Katherine Dunn

“ 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

“ There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. ”

- Katherine Dunn

“ There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. ”

- Katherine Dunn

“ There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. ”

- Katherine Dunn
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