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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

Chris Cleave

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
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
I’m always determined that as a novelist I’m going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.
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Character Research Writing
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
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
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
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
That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.
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Hope Missing Without Young
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
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
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories

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