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This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.

Chris Cleave

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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Survivor Veteran Weight
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
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
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn’t the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn’t deserve my own pity.
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Cry Pity Understood
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
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
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
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
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
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
Death, of course, is a refuge. It’s where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It’s where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.
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Capes Names Running
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

This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.

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