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  • Chris Cleave Quote - Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
  • Chris Cleave Quote - Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
  • Chris Cleave Quote - Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
  • Chris Cleave Quote - Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
  • Chris Cleave Quote - Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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  2. grey
  3. blue
  4. red
  5. brown
  6. white

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

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    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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  • 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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    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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    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 - There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

    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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    And thus love makes fools of us all.

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

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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 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 Download This Image

    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

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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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    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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    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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    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.

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    We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

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    I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

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    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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