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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
I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make words out of life. That's bigger than me. That's as big a creative force as - bigger than, for me, even having children. That felt more accidental - wonderful, but accidental.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
The belief that we can be done with our past is a myth.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad, at times very wise, and other times not wise at all - a lot like me.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm unconventional and eccentric and talk things out, and it seemed that the person I married - maybe in reaction - got quieter and more conventional over time. It felt as if we were putting each other in a straitjacket.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are real consequences when women speak out. It's really dangerous, and it takes real courage. We are still speaking out against a white male majority. Forget the glass ceiling. We haven't even broken the glass floor!
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone says marriage is hard work, but they don't tell you that actually being yourself and respecting yourself is hard work.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a working writer; this is my job. So it matters to me that it's good. I sweat over every word. I don't just vomit this stuff up. It's agony. The only thing that comes close is childbirth, except it's like being in labor for eighteen months.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can have an intense connection to someone without being a good, lifelong mate for him. Love is complicated and difficult that way.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look around and pay attention to what around me is not being talked about, and then I talk about it with as much humour and honesty as I can. All my books have been that way.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to be really profound, and then when I set it down on paper, I find the power of the idea has been hugely weakened in the process of transmission.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mostly, I would like people to ask other writers about the craft of their writing so we could learn from one another. We ask movie directors why they chose to use certain lights and angles and speeds of film, but most of the time, we ignore the craft of a writer.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ambition
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
Retaining culture takes effort and persistence and discipline. It's a commitment, not a flag. You can't just pull it out and wave it about when it's convenient.
- Busily
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's probably cliche to say this, but in my experience, people are far more alike than they are dissimilar.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems very clear to me that we, in the West, cannot afford to continue assuming propriety over the world's resources in a careless, greedy way without paying for it - not only with the lives of our loved ones, but also with our souls.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the perpetual tragedy of all families: each of us believe our congenital pathologies and singular pains end with us.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no way to order chaos. It's the fundamental theory at the beginning and end of everything; it's the ultimate law of nature. There's no way to win against unpredictability, to suit up completely against accidents.
- Beds
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- Nov 07, 2020