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We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

Chris Cleave

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Thinking
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee
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Bombs Horse Littles
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
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Doctors Giving Pickles
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn’t the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn’t deserve my own pity.
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Cry Pity Understood
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn’t start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.
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Brave Journey People
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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Guy School Thinking
I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard as that golden generation was.
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Generations Golden Thinking
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

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