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Katherine Dunn

"Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are."

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"Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are."

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"It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet."

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"Sipping teawith gleebeneath a gooseberry tree.I wish Alice were here.Oh, my dear,do not fear,she will be."

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"In the summer heat the reapers say, "We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair."

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"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."

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"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."
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"But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on."
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"This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes."
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"I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area."
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"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."
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"Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate."
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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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"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie."
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"But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here."
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"The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men."
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