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.
("Geek Love")
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We have been permitted to turn our back on the frailty of life. I mean we live so much longer, and the constant presence of death is part of life.Katherine Dunn
There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.
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There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of the land.
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We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.
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I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
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Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
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