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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
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Stories
Storyteller
Mean
Chaos
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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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The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.
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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’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.
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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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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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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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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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Our stories are the tellers of us.
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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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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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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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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 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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The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.
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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 am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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There was no quick grief for Andrew because he had been so slowly lost. First from my heart, then from my mind, and only finally from my life.
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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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