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stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.
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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I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.
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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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I claimed myself and remade my life.
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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
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It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
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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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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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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 fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
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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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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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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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Life ain't the movies.
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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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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 have a terrible memory.
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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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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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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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