I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
CHRIS CLEAVESad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.
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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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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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I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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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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To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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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.
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I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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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.
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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.
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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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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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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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