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Dorothy Allison Quotes: It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
         

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.


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Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.



Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.



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

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



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



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Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.



I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.



Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.



One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.



The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.



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I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.





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I really liked it best when I was a nobody.



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