Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
CHRIS CLEAVEWe 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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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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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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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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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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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.
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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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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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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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We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
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I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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