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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

Chris Cleave

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
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’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
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
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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Brave Easy Sometimes
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 think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
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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Fool Love Make Thus
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
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
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
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married

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