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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.
Dorothy Allison
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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
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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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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
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Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is love, behind this moment is silence, years of silence.
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
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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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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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I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
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fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
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