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  • Chris Cleave Quote - 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. Download This Image
  • Chris Cleave Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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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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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

    We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn’t the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn’t deserve my own pity.

    Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn’t the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn’t deserve my own pity.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.

    This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

    Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

    The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - Sometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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…?

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - I’m really interested in people’s decisions.

    I’m really interested in people’s decisions.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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    Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

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