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Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
— Dorothy Allison
Tags: legs, two, free, walking

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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
— Dorothy Allison Bastard Out of Carolina
Tags: truth, lying, lies
The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.
— Dorothy Allison
Tags: better, you, truth, beautiful
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read.
— Dorothy Allison
Tags: book, saying, school, me
If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.
— Dorothy Allison
Tags: powerful, strong, book, you
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 a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.
— Dorothy Allison
Tags: responsibility, people, you, love
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