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Sometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.

Chris Cleave

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
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
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
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well– here is the truth– you have to talk yourself out of it.
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Girl Looks Stories
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
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
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 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
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
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
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

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