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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.
Dorothy Allison
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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
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Greenville
South Carolina
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Why write stories? To join the conversation.
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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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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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It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
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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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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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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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stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.
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Life ain't the movies.
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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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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Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life…just the certainty that God’s got His eye on you, that He knows what you are made of, what you need to grow on. Why,questioning’s a sin, it’s pointless. He will show you your path in His own good time. And long as I remember that, I’m fine.
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I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
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I have a terrible memory.
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I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
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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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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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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
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He never said Don't tell your mama. He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me... (109)
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