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It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I thought literature should do - which was simply to push people into changing their ideas about the world, and to go further, to encourage us in the work of changing the world, to making it more just and more truly human.

Dorothy Allison

Writing, Ideas, People

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Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.

Dorothy Allison

Baby, Doors

Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.62, Penguin

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Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

Dorothy Allison

Teenager, Two, Legs

Dorothy Allison, Mae Miller Claxton (2012). “Conversations with Dorothy Allison”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats.

Dorothy Allison

Believe, Land, People

Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.33, Penguin

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... survival is the least of my desires.

Dorothy Allison

Survival, Desire

Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.138, Open Road Media

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Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

Dorothy Allison

Girl, Kids, World

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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.

Dorothy Allison

Couple, Memories, Water

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I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

Dorothy Allison

Sports, Thinking, Understanding

San Francisco Focus, www.imdb.com. December 23, 1996.

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Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for real. It's like bad whiskey. Run through you fast and leave you with pain.

Dorothy Allison

Running, Pain, Nice

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Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

Dorothy Allison

Drama, Years, Twenties

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Life ain't the movies.

Dorothy Allison

Life

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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.

Dorothy Allison

Hate, Love Yourself, And Love

Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.127, Penguin

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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

Writing, Order, People

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It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.

Dorothy Allison

Challenges, Important, Equal

Dorothy Allison, Mae Miller Claxton (2012). “Conversations with Dorothy Allison”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the library, when I just wanted Daddy Glen to love me like the father in Robinson Crusoe. (209)

Dorothy Allison

Father, Book, Daddy

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I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Dorothy Allison

Talking, Goes On, Needs

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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

Dorothy Allison

Sister, Growing Up, Book

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt.

Dorothy Allison

Laughing, Mama, Wells

Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin

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Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.

Dorothy Allison

Wish, Stories, Behinds

Dorothy Allison (1995). “Two Or Three Things I Know for Sure”, E P Dutton

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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.

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I claimed myself and remade my life.

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Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.56, Penguin

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I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

Dorothy Allison

Thinking, Movement, Died

San Francisco Focus, www.imdb.com. December 23, 1996.

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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.

Dorothy Allison

Jobs, Facts, Want

Dorothy Allison, Mae Miller Claxton (2012). “Conversations with Dorothy Allison”, p.87, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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I have a terrible memory.

Dorothy Allison

Memories, Terrible

Dorothy Allison, Mae Miller Claxton (2012). “Conversations with Dorothy Allison”, p.70, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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I can't write what I don't believe in.

Dorothy Allison

Believe, Writing, Don't Believe

Dorothy Allison, Mae Miller Claxton (2012). “Conversations with Dorothy Allison”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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