“ Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
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“ I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
“ Before I published any of my own stories, I read a great many stories by people as passionate about writing as I was, and I learned something from everyone I read something most important what I should not try to write. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
“ I did not imagine anyone reading my rambling, ranting stories. I was writing for myself, trying to shape my life outside my terrors and helplessness, to make it visible and real in a tangible way, in the way other people's seemed real the lives I had read about in books. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
“ It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fatassed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
- 3.9K
“ 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- Copy
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“ That was what my book was about—telling a story that made sense of what did not make sense, and telling it plainly enough that anyone who wanted to could point to it and say “that’s my story.” A man in a Peterbilt cap or a teenage girl with her hair down in her eyes. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
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“ I had imagined that, reading Bone’s story, a girl like her would see what I intended—that being made the object of someone else’s contempt and rage did not make you contemptible. I was arguing against the voice that had told me I was a monster—at five, nine, and fifteen. I was arguing for the innocence and worth of that child—I who had never believed in my own innocence. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
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“ That was what my book was about—telling a story that made sense of what did not make sense, and telling it plainly enough that anyone who wanted to could point to it and say “that’s my story.” A man in a Peterbilt cap or a teenage girl with her hair down in her eyes. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I had imagined that, reading Bone’s story, a girl like her would see what I intended—that being made the object of someone else’s contempt and rage did not make you contemptible. I was arguing against the voice that had told me I was a monster—at five, nine, and fifteen. I was arguing for the innocence and worth of that child—I who had never believed in my own innocence. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
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“ Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
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“ One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
- 3.8K
“ One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
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“ Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
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“ Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me. ”
- Dorothy Allison- Copy
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