"How you see a country depends on whether……" — Alexandra Fuller
"How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to."
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22 Quotes by Alexandra Fuller
Alexandra Fuller has 22 quotes on this site.
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This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice…
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It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins -…
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You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and…
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The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like,…
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But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown…
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FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in…
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Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had…
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I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.
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I listen mostly to classical music.
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I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.
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In general, I almost always watch foreign films.
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In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until…
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people…
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no…
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
— David Attenborough
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
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Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot…
— Margaret Atwood
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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