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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

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Chris Cleave
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: May 14
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Wreckage
Built
Upon
Woman

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We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
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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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Our stories are the tellers of us.
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I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.
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It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it.
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I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee
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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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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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Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.
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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’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.
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However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.
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I'm a much better writer for being a father.
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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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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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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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So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.
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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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