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Chris Cleave
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: May 14
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
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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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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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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'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 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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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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The ways in which we are able to express courage also depend on the hand life deals us.
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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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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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You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.
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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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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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It was hard not to be full of hope
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Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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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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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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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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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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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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