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It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Intersect
Tease
Fiction
Fun
Life
People

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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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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.
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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 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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I claimed myself and remade my life.
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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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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
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Why write stories? To join the conversation.
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fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
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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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Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
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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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Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
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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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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
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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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It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
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