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Dorothy Allison Inspirational Quotes (41)

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I claimed myself and remade my life.
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People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.
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I have a terrible memory.
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Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told.
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And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.
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What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.
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stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.
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Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.
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Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
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I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
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That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.
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Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
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Life ain't the movies.
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The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.
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I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.
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It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
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The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the library, when I just wanted Daddy Glen to love me like the father in Robinson Crusoe. (209)
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I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.
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He never said Don't tell your mama. He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me... (109)
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