They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot … - Katherine Dunn

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I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

Katherine Dunn

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.

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My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries. . . they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.

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But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

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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.

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In my next life, I plan to be a more respectable creature. For now, this is what is given to us. So I don't know - I think we're all freaks at heart. I think some people strive desperately to be normal, and I think other people strive to be abnormal.

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

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for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

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A is for Alibi, my first book, was published in 1982. As it happened the next couple of books took place in June and August of that year. Without meaning to I painted myself into a corner. The other issue was the aging process. I did not want my main character to age one year for every book so I slowed the whole process down. This way I could get through all 26 letters of the alphabet without making her 109 years old in 2015. I might end the series in either 1990 or on New Years Eve 1989.

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Abraham Lincoln

I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

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Kanye West

If you fall on concrete, that's yo ass fault

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Tupac Shakur

Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance.

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