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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
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At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.
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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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Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don't tend to talk.
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[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the lost children who feature in the novel - those come from my research.
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Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.
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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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I'm a much better writer for being a father.
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People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.
Chris Cleave
I'm not happy with just repeating myself.
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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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Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.
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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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I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.
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Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
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I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.
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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 know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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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 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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