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Sometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.

Chris Cleave

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
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Stories Talking Writing
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
I’m always determined that as a novelist I’m going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.
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Character Research Writing
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.
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Alive Mean Stories
Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.
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Country Horror Suffering
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
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Differences Mean Two
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don’t always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn’t have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I’m interested in the exceptions.
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Anger Hate Writing
Death, of course, is a refuge. It’s where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It’s where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.
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Capes Names Running
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
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Doctors Giving Pickles
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells

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