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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.

Chris Cleave

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
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Events Memories Wwii
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
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
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 bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
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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Country Horror Suffering
Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English…?
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Clouds Girl Summer
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.
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Bad Day Giving Lazy
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well– here is the truth– you have to talk yourself out of it.
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Girl Looks Stories
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing

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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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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