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There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

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
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn’t the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn’t deserve my own pity.
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Cry Pity Understood
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
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 am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.
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Country Horror Suffering
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’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
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
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
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
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

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