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

Chris Cleave

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 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
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
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
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
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
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
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
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Thinking
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
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
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells

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

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