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I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.

Chris Cleave

I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
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
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
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
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn’t start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.
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Brave Journey People
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
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
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
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
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
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
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 think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.

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