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"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

"I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming."

"There was no romance about the mosquitos, however."

"I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that."

"I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really."

"Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic."

"If I call him back here," Cooper whispered in her ear, "will you crawl up my body again?"

"To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much."
Explore more quotes by Dorothy Allison

"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me."

"I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them."

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

"Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside."
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