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Dorothy Allison Quotes: 6

  • 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.

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

    Bastard Out of Carolina

  • 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 fat-assed 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.

    Bastard Out of Carolina

  • Write to your fear.

  • Why write stories? To join the conversation.

    Trash: Stories

  • 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.

    Bastard Out of Carolina