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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
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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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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
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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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Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
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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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I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.
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What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.
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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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I have a terrible memory.
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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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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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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 claimed myself and remade my life.
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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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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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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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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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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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