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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Chris Cleave

To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
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
I write in the novel’s afterword that our recent wars “finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy”.
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Enemy War Writing
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
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
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
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
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
[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 think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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Guy School Thinking
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
This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.
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Ears Grief Moving
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
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

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

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