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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)
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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I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.
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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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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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Life ain't the movies.
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Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
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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 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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I have a terrible memory.
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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'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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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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What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.
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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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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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