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Chris Cleave

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
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 am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
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
I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
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Stories Talking Writing
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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Bombs Horse Littles
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
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
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean 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
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
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
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing

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

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