239 Quotes by Chris Cleave
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Do you remember back when you felt you could actually do something to make the world better?” “You’re talking to the wrong man. I work for central government, remember? Actually doing something is the mistake we’re trained to avoid.
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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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They say the eye sees, but there’s a blind place in the mind.” “And I say it is lack of effort. You must hold him to the same standard as everyone else. Because where should it stop, this fashionable clemency, once we allow that there are things we can see and yet be blind to?” The singing voices swelled in the cellar and the bombs gave the percussion, and the great injured city went further into night. “Oh, I don’t know, darling. I don’t know where it will stop.
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The true moments of one’s life were sadder for the fact that they must always be synchronized with the ordinary: with rail timetables, with breaks in traffic.
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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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You ever wonder why an East Eng girl like me hasn’t got much in the way of family? Well here’s the reasons Petra. World War 1. World War 2. Falklands War. Gulf War 1. Gulf War 2 and the War on Drugs. You can take your pick because I’ve lost whole bloody chunks of my family in all of them.
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Everything can be restored. If one won’t believe that, how does one endure all this?
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I understand that your brain is large and perpetually at war with itself.
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Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well – here is the truth – you have to talk yourself out of it.
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