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And thus love makes fools of us all.

Chris Cleave

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 a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don’t always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn’t have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I’m interested in the exceptions.
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Anger Hate Writing
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
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
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
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
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
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
[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
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
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
Death, of course, is a refuge. It’s where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It’s where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.
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Capes Names Running

And thus love makes fools of us all.

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