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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.
Dorothy Allison
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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
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Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Gospel
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Hate
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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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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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I have a terrible memory.
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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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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
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What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.
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I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
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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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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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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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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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