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Alexandra Fuller [1969-0] English

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Alexandra Fuller is an author who currently lives in the U.S. state of Wyoming.

Courage

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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.		101
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.		102
I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.		103
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.		104
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.	Courage	105
I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.		106
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.		107
In general, I almost always watch foreign films.		108
I listen mostly to classical music.		109
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.		110

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