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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

Chris Cleave

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
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
Death, of course, is a refuge. It’s where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It’s where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.
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Capes Names Running
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
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
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
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
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
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
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
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. 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
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

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