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  • Chris Cleave Quote - 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.
  • Chris Cleave Quote - 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.
  • Chris Cleave Quote - 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.
  • Chris Cleave Quote - 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.
  • Chris Cleave Quote - 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.
  • Chris Cleave Quote - 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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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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

    A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself. Download This Image

    I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. Download This Image

    Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don’t tend to talk. Download This Image

    Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don’t tend to talk.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee Download This Image

    I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.

    I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.

    I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious. Download This Image

    If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Chris Cleave Quote - I write in the novel’s afterword that our recent wars “finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy”.

    I write in the novel’s afterword that our recent wars “finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy”.

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