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There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.
- Alexandra Fuller
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#Real
#Way
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Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.
- Alexandra Fuller
#Diary
#Literature
#Me
#Reality
#World
I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.
- Alexandra Fuller
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#Difficult
#I Am
#Never
#Wonderful
I listen mostly to classical music.
- Alexandra Fuller
#Classical Music
#Listen
#Mostly
#Music
In general, I almost always watch foreign films.
- Alexandra Fuller
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#Always
#Foreign
#General
#Watch
In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.
- Alexandra Fuller
#Experience
#Lesson
#Me
#Real
#Words
I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.
- Alexandra Fuller
#Always
#Love
#Loved
#Me
#Tough
I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.
- Alexandra Fuller
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#I See
#Love
#Mother
#See
One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.
- Alexandra Fuller
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#Nothing
#Place
#Soft
#Tough
The only process that comes close to the process of writing a whole book, in my experience, is childbirth. There is this moment when you think you can't possibly labour for another moment, and that, paradoxically, is when you have to push hardest.
- Alexandra Fuller
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#Experience
#Moment
#Process
#Push
In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She kept a woodwork shop and made beautiful furniture, as well as raising the pair of us in a society dominated by men. There really is nothing like war to reveal the power of patriarchy, but she always retained her independence.
- Alexandra Fuller
#Independence
#Men
#Power
#Society
#War
In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly, bled them on the corridors of hospitals, laid our corpses on the beds of neighbors, held our sorrows up in full light. We were volume ten about our madness and disorder, even if we were also resilient and enduring and tough.
- Alexandra Fuller
#Back
#Light
#Madness
#Tough
#Tragedy
I think for writers, I think it's really important to court eviction from your tribe: to expose things and to wake people up. And so I think that that can feel like a violation to the people you love the most.
- Alexandra Fuller
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#Important
#Love
#People
#Tribe
The most basic human impulse is toward entropy and laziness. The less we have to do to grow spiritually, the more likely we are to do it.
- Alexandra Fuller
#Entropy
#Grow
#Human
#Laziness
#More
I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide - against those things, there is no conventional guard.
- Alexandra Fuller
#Against
#Did
#Know
#Things
#Tide
I have heard over and over again that the drilling business is a dangerous business, and death is an expected part of the game, but I've also heard of the way that safety violations, human and environmental laws, and a concern for the local culture are flaunted in pursuit of money.
- Alexandra Fuller
#Business
#Death
#Environmental
#Money
The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
- Alexandra Fuller
#Beautiful
#Courage
#Honesty
#Sometimes
I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.
- Alexandra Fuller
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#Love
#Parenting
#Politics
#Think
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