"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."

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Source : Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.384, Vintage

Katherine Dunn

#Dog Quotes #Fashion Quotes #Real Quotes

“The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.”
“I had so much fire in me and so many plans...”
“I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.”

Source : "Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks".
“I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“People seem to think I'm Satan.”

Source : "Dominic West: 'People seem to think I'm Satan'" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2011.
“People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.”
“It's the imperfections that make things beautiful.”

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