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

Chris Cleave

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.
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Alive Mean Stories
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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Brave Journey People
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
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
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Thinking
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
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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Brave Easy Sometimes
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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Stories Talking Writing
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
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
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
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

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