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It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
Dorothy Allison
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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
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Greenville
South Carolina
Fiction
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I claimed myself and remade my life.
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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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I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.
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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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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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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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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 fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
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stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.
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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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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
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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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Life ain't the movies.
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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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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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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 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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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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Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.
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