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“Perhaps it is different for others, but I came to this freedom suddenly, after long, if voluntary, subjugation. I am learning slowly what it is that I want. These trivial discoveries web my days with pleasure, and I am my own audience, and the audience of the goldfish, and of the scarred old toad in the garden.”
― Katherine Dunn, Toad

“I have an insidious conviction that between the onset of puberty and the age of thirty, people, like the hypothetical painting in the desert, do no exist without someone looking at them. I didn't. After thirty, I suppose we become a corporeal composite of what all of our viewers have witnessed, a kind of community gelatin.”
― Katherine Dunn, Toad

“Lady Sylvia flapped across the room like an opaque protoplasm propelling itself over a sand-bank.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me The Waltz

“The dumb little fuck was supposed to be so goddamn sensitive, how come he couldn’t figure it out? All he had to do to make me like him was need me. All he had to do to make Arty like him was drop dead.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love