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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

We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
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
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
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
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
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
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

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