Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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.
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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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This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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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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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed beside her in a cinema, in 1941, when a bomb came through the roof – a tragedy in which she herself was badly wounded.
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There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
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Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.
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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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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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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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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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