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Begin Quotes by Dorothy Allison
- I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.
- The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on…
- I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
- I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do…
- I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from…
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