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What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.

Dorothy Allison

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Best
Writing
Thing
Life
Construct
Constructs
Libertarian
Boring

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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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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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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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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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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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