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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

Chris Cleave

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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Girl Looks Stories
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
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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Dating Grandmother Men
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
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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Country Horror Suffering
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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Enough Jingoism War
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
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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Capes Names Running
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
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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Differences Mean Two
Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English…?
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Clouds Girl Summer

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

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