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Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

Chris Cleave

I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
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
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Thinking
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
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
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
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
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
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
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn’t the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn’t deserve my own pity.
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Cry Pity Understood
I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee
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Bombs Horse Littles
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

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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