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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Chris Cleave

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
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
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
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 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
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
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don’t always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn’t have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I’m interested in the exceptions.
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Anger Hate Writing
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed beside her in a cinema, in 1941, when a bomb came through the roof – a tragedy in which she herself was badly wounded.
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Dating Grandmother Men
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
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
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

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

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