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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.

Chris Cleave

I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
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
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
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
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
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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Capes Names Running
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
I’m always determined that as a novelist I’m going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.
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Character Research Writing
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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Brave Journey People
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
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
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
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage

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