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One Quotes by Dorothy Allison
- 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…
- Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the…
- One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
- Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go on living I…
- 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.
- Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because…
- Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know…
- 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…
- Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself…
- she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant
- Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not…
- For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I…
- My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — 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
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle