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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.
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
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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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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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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
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It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
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