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It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
Dorothy Allison
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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
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Greenville
South Carolina
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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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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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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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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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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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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
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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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