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Dorothy Allison

"One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt."

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"Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure."

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"There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness."

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