Quotes
Authors
Dorothy Allison

"For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I told people, I take damage like a wall, a brick wall that never falls down, never feels anything, never flinches or remembers. I am one woman but I carry in my body all the stories I have ever been told, women I have known, women who have taken damage until they tell themselves they can feel no pain at all."

-- Dorothy Allison

#Wall Quotes #Pain Quotes #Fall Quotes

“As a Christian, I am responsible for the furniture of my mind.”
“I'm a great fan of Woody Allen's movies.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Soul Searching, or Searching for a Soul; Enigmatic Desplechin Returns with 'Esther Kahn'" by Andrea Meyer, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2002.
“Putting on fierce boots is an instant pick-me-up.”
“To hear people talk, you would think no one ever did anything but love each other. But when you look for it, when you search out this love everyone is always talking about, it is nowhere to be found; and when someone looks for love from you, you find you are not able to give it, you are not able to hold the trust and dreams they want you to hold, any more than you could cradle water in your arms.”
“I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Relationships are a lot like yard sales. They look really fun from a couple hundred feet away, but eventually you realize it's just a bunch of crap you don't need.”
“Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and taste and experience much less than usual... And for a man who has let himself be drawn completely out of himself by his activity, nothing is more difficult than to sit still and rest, doing nothing at all. The very act of resting is the hardest and most courageous act he can perform.”
“No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.”

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