Dorothy Allison Quotes - Page 3

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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.

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  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.

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  Teenager, Two, Legs

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

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• ... survival is the least of my desires.

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  Survival, Desire

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

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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.

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  Sports, Thinking, Understanding

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

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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.

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  Girl, Kids, World

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

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  Sister, Growing Up, Book

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

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

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  Believe, Land, People

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

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

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  Challenges, Important, Equal

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

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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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• 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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  Jobs, Facts, Want

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

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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.

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  Wish, Stories, Behinds

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

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• I have a terrible memory.

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  Memories, Terrible

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

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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.

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  Couple, Memories, Water

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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.

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  Writing, Order, People

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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.

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  Truth, Lying, Church

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

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• fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

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  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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• 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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Needs, Way, Revolutionary

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

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  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.

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  Shy, Scared, Complicated

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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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  Hate, Love Yourself, And Love

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

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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.

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  Drama, Years, Twenties

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• Life ain't the movies.

  Dorothy Allison

  Life

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