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This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.

Chris Cleave

Sometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.
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Brave Easy Sometimes
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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Guy School Thinking
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
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Events Memories Wwii
The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.
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Bad Day Giving Lazy
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the “lost children” who feature in the novel – those come from my research.
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Children Teacher War
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
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
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
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer

This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.

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