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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

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Thinking
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
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
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
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
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
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
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
I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
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Stories Talking 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
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
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 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

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