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And thus love makes fools of us all.

Chris Cleave

Sometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.
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Brave Easy Sometimes
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
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
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
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
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
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
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
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
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
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.
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Ears Grief Moving
[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

And thus love makes fools of us all.

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