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Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.

Chris Cleave

Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
CHRIS CLEAVE

Dare Refuge Understand
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
CHRIS CLEAVE

Chasing Destroy Died Writing
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.
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Enough Jingoism War
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
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 think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
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
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
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
Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well– here is the truth– you have to talk yourself out of it.
CHRIS CLEAVE

Girl Looks Stories
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
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.
CHRIS CLEAVE

Anger Hate Writing
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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