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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
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Change
Heart
Way
World
Touch
Sure
Stories

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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
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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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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 have a terrible memory.
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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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It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
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Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
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Life ain't the movies.
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fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
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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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I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
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Why write stories? To join the conversation.
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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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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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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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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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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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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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