Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.
CHRIS CLEAVEHorror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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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 not happy with just repeating myself.
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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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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee
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Sad 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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[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the “lost children” who feature in the novel – those come from my research.
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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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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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WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
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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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