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WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

Chris Cleave

I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
CHRIS CLEAVE

Events Memories Wwii
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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Anger Hate Writing
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
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
Sometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.
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Brave Easy Sometimes
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
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
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the “lost children” who feature in the novel – those come from my research.
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Children Teacher War
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
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
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, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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Guy School Thinking
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing

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