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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Chris Cleave

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
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 think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
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
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
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
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
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
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
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

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

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