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Chris Cleave

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
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
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
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
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
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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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 a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
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
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
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 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
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
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
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

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