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stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Heart
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World
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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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Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
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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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Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
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It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
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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.
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I claimed myself and remade my life.
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I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
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Why write stories? To join the conversation.
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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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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
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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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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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I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
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What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.
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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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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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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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It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
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