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 CLEAVEStill shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn’t the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn’t deserve my own pity.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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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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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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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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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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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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Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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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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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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