Dorothy Allison Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  Dorothy Allison

  Thinking, World

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

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• I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.

  Dorothy Allison

  Love You, Character, Responsibility

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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.

  Dorothy Allison

  People, World, Make Sense

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.135, Penguin

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• ...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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• My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had been was gone with the child she had been. We were new people, and we didn't know each other anymore. I shook my head desperately.

  Dorothy Allison

  Children, Heart, People

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.280, Penguin

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• If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story.

  Dorothy Allison

  Art, Writing, Responsibility

  "A Conversation with Dorothy Allison". Interview with Renée Olander, www.awpwriter.org. October 2002.

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• I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

  Dorothy Allison

  Needs, Way, Revolutionary

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• I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people.

  Dorothy Allison

  Nice, Writing, People

  "kin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature". Book by Dorothy Allison, 1994.

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• I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

  Dorothy Allison

  Shy, Scared, Complicated

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