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Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
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Teenager
Legs
Walking
Free
Two
Around
Teenagers

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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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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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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 fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
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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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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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It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.
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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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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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fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
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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 claimed myself and remade my life.
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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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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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Life ain't the movies.
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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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