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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

Chris Cleave

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don’t always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn’t have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I’m interested in the exceptions.
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Anger Hate Writing
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
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
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
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
My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed beside her in a cinema, in 1941, when a bomb came through the roof – a tragedy in which she herself was badly wounded.
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Dating Grandmother Men
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
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
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
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile 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
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother

I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

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