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People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Make
Love
World
People
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