If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
CHRIS CLEAVEA scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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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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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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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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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.
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Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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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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The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don’t always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn’t have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I’m interested in the exceptions.
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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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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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This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.
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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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