Time Quotes by Dorothy Allison

8 Time quotes by Dorothy Allison

Dorothy Allison writes about time with raw honesty, each line a brief, poignant glimpse into personal and collective memory. Eight short quotes offer a modest, moving portrait of her voice.

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Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.

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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…

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“In the worst moments of my life, I have told myself that story, the story about a girl who stood up to…

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“Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones”

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“By the time that poem became the story “River of Names,”* I had made the decision to reverse that process: to claim…

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“Moving had no season, was all seasons, crossed time like a train with no schedule. We moved so often our mail never…

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I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to…

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“Every time I sit down to write, I have a great fear that anything I write will reveal me as the monster…

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“Entitlement, I have told them, is a matter of feeling like we rather than they.”

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“Love was something I would not have to worry about - the whole mystery of love, heartbreak songs, and family legends. Women who pined,…

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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…

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Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring,…

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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,…

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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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The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn…

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“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends…

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