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Chris Cleave

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 does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
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
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
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 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
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
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
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
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
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

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