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.
CHRIS CLEAVEA 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.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
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WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
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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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I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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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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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn’t start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.
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This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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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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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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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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