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I’m a much better writer for being a father.

Chris Cleave

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
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Events Memories Wwii
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
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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Enough Jingoism War
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’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
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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Generations Golden Thinking
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
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
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
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 can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking

I’m a much better writer for being a father.

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