Dorothy Allison Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

  Dorothy Allison

  Lying, Together, Deceit

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.227, Penguin

• ... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us extraordinary

  Dorothy Allison

  Lying, Self, Hatred

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.25, Open Road Media

• Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

  Dorothy Allison

  Lying, Writing, Fiction

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.117, Open Road Media

• fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

  Dorothy Allison

  Lying, Fiction, Telling The Truth

  "Books That Are Just What the Doctor Ordered". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. June 18, 2006.

• ...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.

  Dorothy Allison

  Truth, Lying, Church

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.118, Open Road Media

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