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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
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Constructs
Libertarian
Boring
Best
Writing
Thing
Life

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