I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
CHRIS CLEAVEEven 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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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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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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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 not happy with just repeating myself.
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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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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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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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A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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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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