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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

Chris Cleave

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Chris Cleave
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: May 14
Journalist
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London
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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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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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So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.
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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 was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.
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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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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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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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Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.
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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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The ways in which we are able to express courage also depend on the hand life deals us.
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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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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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My whole life is my work.
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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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You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's like a tube of toothpaste. You can twist it and you can crush it but there's always a tiny bit left isn't there?
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Death, of course, is a refuge. It's where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It's where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.
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It was hard not to be full of hope
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Our stories are the tellers of us.
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