239 Quotes by Chris Cleave

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    The first problem of war was that no one was any good at it yet.

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    Oh, I hope I don’t teach. Because look what we did: we saved the zoo animals and the nice children, and we damned the afflicted and the blacks. You know what I do every day in that classroom? I do everything in my power to make sure those poor souls won’t learn the obvious lesson.

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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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    What’s he like?” “Thoughtful. Interesting. Compassionate.” “These are English words for ugly.

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    You could only be sad if you let yourself join the dots, if you allowed the scatter of moments in their totality to have some kind of a downward trend that you might be dumb enough to extrapolate.

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    This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.

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    You know what worries me about the enemy? It’s the violence. It is almost as if he thinks he can solve every problem this way.

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    It was not the same as charging down a machine-gun nest armed only with a Bowie knife, or strapping in to the tail-gunner seat of a four-engined heavy bomber. And no one else would ever know, since one did not get a medal for letting go of a woman’s hand on a gray Saturday morning in the middle of a European war. But to have faith – that a lover would be constant and life clement – this did require courage in a city more disposed to beginnings than safe continuations. As.

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    It was an air one might still breathe, if everyone forgiven was brave.

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