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Top 160 Chris Cleave Quotes (2025 Update)
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Chris Cleave Quote: “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.”

151. “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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Chris Cleave Quote: “In the history of the world there was not one example of a man ever having written a satisfactory letter to a woman who mattered to him.”

152. “In the history of the world there was not one example of a man ever having written a satisfactory letter to a woman who mattered to him.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “The Americans were tall men on full rations and it clearly made no sense to them that exhaustion should have the last word in the common language of English. “How come?” Mary heard them yelling to each other, over the noise of the engines. “How come they just left it broken like this?”

153. “The Americans were tall men on full rations and it clearly made no sense to them that exhaustion should have the last word in the common language of English. “How come?” Mary heard them yelling to each other, over the noise of the engines. “How come they just left it broken like this?”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “But life is not inclined to let any of us escape.”

154. “But life is not inclined to let any of us escape.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world.”

155. “I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “I do not think I have left my country. I think it has traveled with me.”

156. “I do not think I have left my country. I think it has traveled with me.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “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.”

157. “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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Chris Cleave Quote: “This is the real reason why no one tells us Africans anything. It is not because anyone wants to keep my continent in ignorance. It is because nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. Or maybe you would like to, but you can’t. Your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works.”

158. “This is the real reason why no one tells us Africans anything. It is not because anyone wants to keep my continent in ignorance. It is because nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. Or maybe you would like to, but you can’t. Your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “Women share everything. It’s the blessing we received when we turned down muscles and mustaches.” He.”

159. “Women share everything. It’s the blessing we received when we turned down muscles and mustaches.” He.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “He thought of Tom dancing with the girl, and he was happy. Sleep came, finally, with the music swelling into the vacuum in his mind where there had been only that high, thin whining. The gramophone spun and he slept, with the letter still in his hand. He had kissed Duggan as he was dying. It had seemed the only thing to do.”

160. “He thought of Tom dancing with the girl, and he was happy. Sleep came, finally, with the music swelling into the vacuum in his mind where there had been only that high, thin whining. The gramophone spun and he slept, with the letter still in his hand. He had kissed Duggan as he was dying. It had seemed the only thing to do.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “There was extraordinary pain behind the ordinary nouns.”

161. “There was extraordinary pain behind the ordinary nouns.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “Gloriously, I’ve also learned that people you meet in real life are very unrealistic. The marvelous problem for fiction is to capture this preposterous, implausible and blazingly eccentric life, and to put it in a cell overnight, to sober it up until it reads believably on the page. That’s what a novelist is: I’m not a creating god, I’m reality’s jailor.”

162. “Gloriously, I’ve also learned that people you meet in real life are very unrealistic. The marvelous problem for fiction is to capture this preposterous, implausible and blazingly eccentric life, and to put it in a cell overnight, to sober it up until it reads believably on the page. That’s what a novelist is: I’m not a creating god, I’m reality’s jailor.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “From my country you have taken its future, and to my country you have sent the objects from your past. We do not have the seed, we have the husk.”

163. “From my country you have taken its future, and to my country you have sent the objects from your past. We do not have the seed, we have the husk.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “Your whole life, you had to fit it onto one sheet of paper. There was a black line around the edge of the sheet, a border, and if you wrote outside the line then your application would not be valid. They only gave you enough space to write down the very saddest things that had happened to you. That was the worst part. Because if you cannot read the beautiful things that have happened in someone’s life, why should you care about their sadness?”

164. “Your whole life, you had to fit it onto one sheet of paper. There was a black line around the edge of the sheet, a border, and if you wrote outside the line then your application would not be valid. They only gave you enough space to write down the very saddest things that had happened to you. That was the worst part. Because if you cannot read the beautiful things that have happened in someone’s life, why should you care about their sadness?”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “Oh, thought Tom, so it finishes as quickly as this. All the things we make exceptional are merely borrowed from the mundane and must without warning be surrendered to it.”

165. “Oh, thought Tom, so it finishes as quickly as this. All the things we make exceptional are merely borrowed from the mundane and must without warning be surrendered to it.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “We must take turns, don’t you think? Every time one of us is buried like this, we shall dig the other out.”

166. “We must take turns, don’t you think? Every time one of us is buried like this, we shall dig the other out.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “Why wander through your thoughts when you could drive through them quite recklessly, with sirens?”

167. “Why wander through your thoughts when you could drive through them quite recklessly, with sirens?”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “Sometimes I feel as lonely as the Queen of England.”

168. “Sometimes I feel as lonely as the Queen of England.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “Good luck. Take quinine if it’s Cairo, take salt if it’s the desert, take precautions if it’s a local girl. Avoid gin unless good tonic is available, smoke no more than one pack, and keep anything made of metal on the outside of your skin. Dismiss.”

169. “Good luck. Take quinine if it’s Cairo, take salt if it’s the desert, take precautions if it’s a local girl. Avoid gin unless good tonic is available, smoke no more than one pack, and keep anything made of metal on the outside of your skin. Dismiss.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “You could have lost your gloves in the fog and found them half an hour later, still suspended in the air at wrist height.”

170. “You could have lost your gloves in the fog and found them half an hour later, still suspended in the air at wrist height.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “I sat in the ground, with the warm sun shining on my back, and I realized that the earth had not rejected me and the sunlight had not snapped me in two.”

171. “I sat in the ground, with the warm sun shining on my back, and I realized that the earth had not rejected me and the sunlight had not snapped me in two.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “With this girl – girl three in the queue – her story had made her so sad that she did not know the name of the place where she was at and she did not want to know. The girl was not even curious.”

172. “With this girl – girl three in the queue – her story had made her so sad that she did not know the name of the place where she was at and she did not want to know. The girl was not even curious.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why?”

173. “How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why?”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “We looked as if we’d been cobbled together in Photoshop, the three of us, walking to my husband’s funeral. One white middle-class mother, one skinny black refugee girl, and one small Dark Knight from Gotham City.”

174. “We looked as if we’d been cobbled together in Photoshop, the three of us, walking to my husband’s funeral. One white middle-class mother, one skinny black refugee girl, and one small Dark Knight from Gotham City.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “We never tasted tea in my village, even though they grow it in the east of my country, where the land rises up into the clouds and the trees grow long soft beards of moss from the wet air. There in the east, the plantations stretch up the green hillsides and vanish into the mist. The tea they grow, that vanishes too. I think all of it is exported. Myself I never tasted tea until I was exported with it.”

175. “We never tasted tea in my village, even though they grow it in the east of my country, where the land rises up into the clouds and the trees grow long soft beards of moss from the wet air. There in the east, the plantations stretch up the green hillsides and vanish into the mist. The tea they grow, that vanishes too. I think all of it is exported. Myself I never tasted tea until I was exported with it.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “The dreams of my country are no different from yours – they are as big as the human heart.”

176. “The dreams of my country are no different from yours – they are as big as the human heart.”

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Chris Cleave Quote: “With love, one could glow. One did not need the intense flame after all. Now.”

177. “With love, one could glow. One did not need the intense flame after all. Now.”

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