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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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fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
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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 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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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
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I have a terrible memory.
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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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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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Why write stories? To join the conversation.
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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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Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
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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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It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
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Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
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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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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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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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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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