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I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.
Dorothy Allison
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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
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Greenville
South Carolina
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Life ain't the movies.
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If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story.
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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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I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
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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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I claimed myself and remade my life.
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I have a terrible memory.
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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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People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.
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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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Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
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It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
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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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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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fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
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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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I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
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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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