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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.

Chris Cleave

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
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
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’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the “lost children” who feature in the novel – those come from my research.
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Children Teacher War
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
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. 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
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn’t start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.
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Brave Journey People
Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
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Doctors Giving Pickles
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
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

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