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Chris Cleave

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
I’m always determined that as a novelist I’m going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.
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Character Research Writing
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
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
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
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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Generations Golden Thinking
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
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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Enemy War Writing
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
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
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
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories

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