"Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant"

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Source : Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.143, Open Road Media

Dorothy Allison

#Writing Quotes #Magic Quotes #Naked Quotes

“When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?”
“In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.”
“Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.”
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”

Source : Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.135, Penguin
“It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe in systems and methods. I believe in the beauties of philosophy and poetry. I believe that the work we do and leave behind us is our afterlife; and I believe that history lies, but sometimes so well that I can't bring myself to resent it. I believe that truth is beauty, but not, I'm afraid, the reverse. It doesn't seem sufficient to sustain one in life's rigorous moments. Perhaps I shall embrace Islam. Its standards for poetry seem very high.”
“Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.”
“In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.”
“I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.”

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