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Chris Cleave

Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
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’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
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
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
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
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
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
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
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
We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn’t start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.
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Brave Journey People
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage

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