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In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.

~Alexandra Fuller

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In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

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It's probably cliche to say this, but in my experience, people are far more alike than they are dissimilar.

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I don't know if it's just my age or the climate or the high altitude or some of those old-cowboy values rubbing off on me, but I've grown slightly mellower living in Wyoming. I think if you ride into the West on a high horse, you pretty soon end up in a pile of manure.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Age Altitude Climate End Grown High Horse Just Know Living Manure Me Off Pile Pretty Ride Slightly Some Soon Think Those Up Values West You I Think Wyoming

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There is a myth that writers get to choose their stories. You don't get to choose your story any more than you get to choose your children. You can make the decision to write, but beyond that, at the end of the day, it's going to come out how it's going to come out.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Any Beyond Children Choose Come Day Decision End End Of The Day Get Going How Make More Myth Out Stories Story Than Write Writers You Your

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Oh, I don't keep a journal. How you remember an incident is dictated by your emotional state at the time. How you receive the information that is coming in is definitely based on your history and who you are.

~Alexandra Fuller

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For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have to do a brutal self-examination of everything they believe to be true.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Author Be True Before Believe Brutal Come Everything Hard Hard Work Memoir Page Really Self-Examination Succeed True Work

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It is the perpetual tragedy of all families: each of us believe our congenital pathologies and singular pains end with us.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Believe Each End Families Our Pains Perpetual Singular Tragedy Us

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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

Topics: About Africa Also Back Beds Central Corpses Corridor Disorder Dramas Enduring Even Full Held Hospitals Laid Light Madness Neighbors Our Publicly Resilient Shared Sorrows Southern Ten Them Tough Tragedy Up Us Volume Were

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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

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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