"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."

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

Dorothy Allison

#Heart Quotes #Character Quotes #Needs Quotes

“They all lie, from the top man down to the bottom. If their lips are moving, a lie is unfolding.”
“When you are consciously aware of all that you have to be grateful for, your life is in perfect harmony.”
“Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.”
“Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.”

Source : Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.107, Courier Corporation
“The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.”
“We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.”
“I looked at the canine companion. â€œMe cookies. You stay.”
“I love being physical. It makes me feel like I sickly love the pain of it.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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