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Tell Quotes by Dorothy Allison
- 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.
- I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have…
- I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.
- Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself…
- I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into…
- 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…
- And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working class. We listen…
- 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…
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