"When I was growing up, I always read……" — Dorothy Allison
"When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels."
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70 Quotes by Dorothy Allison
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Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated…
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
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I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was…
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Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat…
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Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical…
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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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Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be…
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Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex…
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It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little…
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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
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Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that…
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More Always Read Quotes
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one of 50 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
— Lord Byron
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I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer…
— Sandra Cisneros
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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
— Finley Peter Dunne
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O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and…
— Theodore Roethke
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I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV…
— Barbara Kruger
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I always read the Capitol as f—ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It’s…
— Lenny Kravitz
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I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us…
— Wynton Marsalis
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I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out…
— Robin Hobb
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I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian.…
— Georges Bizet
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I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy…
— Christopher Columbus
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The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published…
— Neil Cross
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I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a…
— Tara Bray Smith
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