American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Quote by Katherine Dunn about fear, violence, culture, crime, criminals, americans, war
Quotes by Katherine Dunn (Ion Tanasa)
32 quotes by Katherine Dunn (Ion Tanasa)
Katherine Dunn (Ion Tanasa) - american Novelist
Also known as: Ion Tanasa.
Was born on 07 apr 1953.
As in the public sphere, there is ample evidence that women can be as physically aggressive behind closed doors as men.
Quote by Katherine Dunn about public, man
Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.
Quote by Katherine Dunn about fight, man
But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.
Quote by Katherine Dunn about nation, people
But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.
Quote by Katherine Dunn about school
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
Quote by Katherine Dunn about good, good luck
But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
Quote by Katherine Dunn about culture, idea
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.
Quote by Katherine Dunn about problems, magic, language, age, olderness, word
I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.
Quote by Katherine Dunn about sex
I'm sure there are plenty of wonderful movie scripts as scripts, and I don't see why they have to buy up all the book rights.
Quote by Katherine Dunn about commerce
If you did well, you were rewarded with middle-class neighborhoods, and I was given a neighborhood with tar-paper shacks, and the people were painfully poor.
Quote by Katherine Dunn about nation, people
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
Quote by Katherine Dunn about survival, tools, fight, violence, human imperfections
Kids die now by either murder or accident - no disease on any scale except rare diseases and they're an anomaly.
Quote by Katherine Dunn about death
Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.
Quote by Katherine Dunn about school, americans
Nonetheless, it is still popular to assert that all female criminals are driven by male threat or patriarchal pressure.
Quote by Katherine Dunn about criminals
