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There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

Chris Cleave

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
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
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
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
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
That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.
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Hope Missing Without Young
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
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
Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
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Doctors Giving Pickles
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
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 not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
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
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing

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