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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

If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
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
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.
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Bad Day Giving Lazy
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
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
[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the “lost children” who feature in the novel – those come from my research.
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Children Teacher War
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 could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
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 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 a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed beside her in a cinema, in 1941, when a bomb came through the roof – a tragedy in which she herself was badly wounded.
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Dating Grandmother Men
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells

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