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Chris Cleave
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: May 14
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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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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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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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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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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We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
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If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.
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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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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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So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.
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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 am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Our own personal brand of courage - in relationships, in conflict, in our principles ­ - is as unique as our fingerprints.
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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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Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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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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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.
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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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Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.
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