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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

Chris Cleave

I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
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
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
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard as that golden generation was.
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Generations Golden Thinking
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
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
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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Hope Missing Without Young
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English…?
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Clouds Girl Summer
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
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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Country Horror Suffering
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People

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