If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
CHRIS CLEAVEThe 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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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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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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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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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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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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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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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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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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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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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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Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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