This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
CHRIS CLEAVEA scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.
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I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English…?
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If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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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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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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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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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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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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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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