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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 have to tell stories, that stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world

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 have to tell stories, that stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world

Dorothy Allison
Heart, Two, Three
Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.58, Penguin

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 their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them.

Dorothy Allison
Heart, Character, Needs
Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.142, Open Road Media

stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.

Dorothy Allison
Heart, Stories, World
Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.58, Penguin

Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.

Dorothy Allison
Grief, Heart, Drunk

I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life - the life we make together. Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted.

Dorothy Allison
Heart, Warrior, Turtles

My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had been was gone with the child she had been. We were new people, and we didn't know each other anymore. I shook my head desperately.

Dorothy Allison
Children, Heart, People
Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.280, Penguin

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