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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
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Greenville
South Carolina
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I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
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I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
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I claimed myself and remade my life.
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I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.
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It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
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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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stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.
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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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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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Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.
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Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life…just the certainty that God’s got His eye on you, that He knows what you are made of, what you need to grow on. Why,questioning’s a sin, it’s pointless. He will show you your path in His own good time. And long as I remember that, I’m fine.
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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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I have a terrible memory.
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I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.
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Why write stories? To join the conversation.
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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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