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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

Chris Cleave

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
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
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
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
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
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
Sometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.
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Brave Easy Sometimes
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don’t always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn’t have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I’m interested in the exceptions.
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Anger Hate Writing
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
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
[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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Children Teacher War
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
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

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