I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school. - Chris Cleave

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In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.

Chris Cleave

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

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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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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

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At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.

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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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