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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, I almost always watch foreign films.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen mostly to classical music.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Harsh Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that being raised the way I was, where everything was so uncompromising, where, you know, we're prepared to fight to the death for the soil that you believed belonged to you - that kind of extreme engagement is very difficult to flush out of your system - or your belief system, anyway.
- Big Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a big difference between loving someone out of duty and dependency and loving someone because you really are able to sort of grow and be whole in the context of that relationship.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember Karoi as a very hot, flat place, but in reality, it is all hills. We just lived next to an airstrip - the only flat piece of land around. That was my world as a three-year-old and sums up the indelible power of memory to a young child.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of the British. When coupled with the violence we saw as children, that can be a fatal combination. Fortunately, I have an outlet for trauma in my writing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020