There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
CHRIS CLEAVEA 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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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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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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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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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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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
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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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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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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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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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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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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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