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Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.

Chris Cleave

I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
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
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
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
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
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
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
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
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
[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

Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.

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