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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.

Chris Cleave

I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
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
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
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
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
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
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
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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Bombs Horse Littles
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
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Thinking
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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Hope Missing Without Young

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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