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I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

Chris Cleave

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Chris Cleave
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: May 14
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Thirds
Telling
Ocean
Trouble
Two
Like
World
Covers

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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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Would we be the heroes or the cowards of the piece? Would we follow orders or stick to our principles, if those two things ever conflicted? Would we be the brave ones who still found the capacity for love - and for laughter - even while we were terrified?
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Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.
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Something I am now convinced of, after researching Everyone Brave, is that none of us is born courageous in all respects.
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Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.
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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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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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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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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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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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Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.
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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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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 think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.
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In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty.
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I wanted to look at the differences between how we fought then and how we fight now, because the current lack of closure generates a state of psychological unease that is interesting to acknowledge and examine.
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