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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.
Dorothy Allison
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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
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Greenville
South Carolina
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Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life…just the certainty that God’s got His eye on you, that He knows what you are made of, what you need to grow on. Why,questioning’s a sin, it’s pointless. He will show you your path in His own good time. And long as I remember that, I’m fine.
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Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told.
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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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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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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'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.
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fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
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I claimed myself and remade my life.
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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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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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I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.
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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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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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stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.
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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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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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It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
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Life ain't the movies.
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