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

Chris Cleave

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
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
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 am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
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
This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.
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Ears Grief Moving
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English…?
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Clouds Girl Summer
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

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