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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

Chris Cleave

And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
[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
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
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
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
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
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
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
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
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
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
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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Generations Golden Thinking
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

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