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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.

Chris Cleave

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

Brave Easy Sometimes
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.
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Ears Grief Moving
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
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
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
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.
CHRIS CLEAVE

Character Research Writing
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
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.
CHRIS CLEAVE

Girl Looks Stories
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
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.
CHRIS CLEAVE

Enough Jingoism War
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
CHRIS CLEAVE

Serious Smile Thinking

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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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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