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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Allison
Cracks
Healing
Open
Comes
Change
Everything

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I have a terrible memory.
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Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
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People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.
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Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is love, behind this moment is silence, years of silence.
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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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It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
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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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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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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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It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
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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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What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.
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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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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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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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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 claimed myself and remade my life.
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I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
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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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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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