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I’m really interested in people’s decisions.

Chris Cleave

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
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
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
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
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
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don’t tend to talk.
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Survivor Veteran Weight
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
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
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
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Doctors Giving Pickles

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