This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
CHRIS CLEAVEDeath, 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.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don’t tend to talk.
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I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard as that golden generation was.
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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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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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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.
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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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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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I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.
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