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  • Chris Cleave Quote - Still 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.
  • Chris Cleave Quote - Still 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.
  • Chris Cleave Quote - Still 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.
  • Chris Cleave Quote - Still 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.
  • Chris Cleave Quote - Still 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.
  • Chris Cleave Quote - Still 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.
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Still 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.

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

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    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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    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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    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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    I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

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    To be well in your mind you have first to be free.

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    This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.

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

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