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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Dorothy Allison

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
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Fiction
Lying
Turns
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Allison
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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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I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
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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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I claimed myself and remade my life.
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I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
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Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
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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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Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.
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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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What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.
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It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
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Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.
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It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.
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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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If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story.
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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.
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fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
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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'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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