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Inspirational Quotes by Dorothy Allison
- Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
- One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
- I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.
- 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 hear.
- I claimed myself and remade my life.
- I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.
- And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.
- I can't write what I don't believe in.
- I have a terrible memory.
- Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she…
- fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
- 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…
- He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what…
- I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
- People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you…
- Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
- Why write stories? To join the conversation.
- Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento