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And thus love makes fools of us all.

Chris Cleave

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’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.
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Hope Missing Without Young
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
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
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
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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Generations Golden Thinking
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
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
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
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
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

And thus love makes fools of us all.

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