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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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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.
Dorothy Allison
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
Dorothy Allison
I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
Dorothy Allison
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.
Dorothy Allison
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)
Dorothy Allison
Life ain't the movies.
Dorothy Allison
It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
Dorothy Allison
People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.
Dorothy Allison
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.
Dorothy Allison
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.
Dorothy Allison
fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
Dorothy Allison
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
Dorothy Allison
I claimed myself and remade my life.
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I have a terrible memory.
Dorothy Allison
Why write stories? To join the conversation.
Dorothy Allison
I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.
Dorothy Allison
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.
Dorothy Allison
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.
Dorothy Allison
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.
Dorothy Allison
That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.
Dorothy Allison