Dorothy Allison Quotes About Lying

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fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
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Lying Fiction Telling The Truth

"Books That Are Just What the Doctor Ordered". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. June 18, 2006.

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... 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
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Lying Self Hatred

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

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

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

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

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

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...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.
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Lying

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

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