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Chris Cleave

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 except

Chris Cleave

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Chris Cleave values the complexity of human reactions, especially when people do not respond to negativity with more negativity, as this creates more meaningful stories. He is more intrigued by those who break the cycle of cruelty rather than those who simply continue it.

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I love each and every one of you but, like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger.

Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.