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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

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
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
Sometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.
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Brave Easy Sometimes
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
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
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
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
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 think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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Guy School Thinking
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
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

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