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My whole life is my work.

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Chris Cleave
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: May 14
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Life
Whole
Work

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Our stories are the tellers of us.
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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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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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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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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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[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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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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Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.
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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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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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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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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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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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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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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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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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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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Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.
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However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.
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