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And thus love makes fools of us all.

Chris Cleave

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
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
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
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Differences Mean Two
I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
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Stories Talking Writing
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.
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Hope Missing Without Young
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
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 can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
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 think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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Guy School 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
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage

And thus love makes fools of us all.

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