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I have a terrible memory.

Dorothy Allison

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Memories
Memory
Terrible

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Why write stories? To join the conversation.
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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
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Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
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What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.
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Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.
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I claimed myself and remade my life.
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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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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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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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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Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.
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The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the library, when I just wanted Daddy Glen to love me like the father in Robinson Crusoe. (209)
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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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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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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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Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.
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I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.
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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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Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
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Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told.
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