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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.

Chris Cleave

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
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
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
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
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
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
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
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
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
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
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
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

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.

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