Dorothy Allison Quotes about Lying

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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Lying, Together, Deceit

Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.227, Penguin

... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us extraordinary

Dorothy Allison

Lying, Self, Hatred

Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.25, Open Road Media

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Dorothy Allison

Lying, Writing, Fiction

Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.117, Open Road Media

...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.

Dorothy Allison

Truth, Lying, Church

Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.118, Open Road Media