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Chris Cleave

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
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
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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Survivor Veteran Weight
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don’t always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn’t have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I’m interested in the exceptions.
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Anger Hate Writing
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
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
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English…?
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Clouds Girl Summer
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
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
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
[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
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War

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