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Chris Cleave

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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Cry Pity Understood
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
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
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
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
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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Bad Day Giving Lazy
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
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 really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
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

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