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We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn’t start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.

Chris Cleave

I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
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
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
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
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
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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Girl Looks Stories
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
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
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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Alive Mean Stories
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
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
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
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories

We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn’t start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.

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We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn’t start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.

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