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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

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
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
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
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
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
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
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
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul 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
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
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
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
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died 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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