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Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

Chris Cleave

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
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
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
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
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 think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
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
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
[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
That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.
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Hope Missing Without Young
There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
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Differences Mean Two
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

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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