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Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

Chris Cleave

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
Sometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.
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Brave Easy Sometimes
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
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
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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Enough Jingoism War
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.
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Alive Mean Stories
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
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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Ears Grief Moving
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don’t tend to talk.
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Survivor Veteran Weight
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
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
I write in the novel’s afterword that our recent wars “finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy”.
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Enemy War Writing
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

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