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And thus love makes fools of us all.

Chris Cleave

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
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 could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
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
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
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
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
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
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
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.
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Alive Mean Stories

And thus love makes fools of us all.

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