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I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.

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Chris Cleave
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: May 14
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Carrying
Horror
Hope
Two

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Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2 in their trucks. I think everyone was killing everyone else and listening to the same music... That is a good trick about this world, Sarah. No one likes each other, but everyone likes U2.
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At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.
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I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.
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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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People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.
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I'm a much better writer for being a father.
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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.
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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.
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I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a lens has its focal length, the novel also has its best distance from the action.
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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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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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I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.
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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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The ways in which we are able to express courage also depend on the hand life deals us.
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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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It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.
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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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