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Sometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.

Chris Cleave

I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
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
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
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
There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
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Differences Mean Two
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
My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed beside her in a cinema, in 1941, when a bomb came through the roof – a tragedy in which she herself was badly wounded.
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Dating Grandmother Men
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
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
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
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 were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
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
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much

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