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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

Chris Cleave

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
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
Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English…?
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Clouds Girl Summer
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
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
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
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
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
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
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
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’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
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
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

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