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Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

Chris Cleave

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.
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Bad Day Giving Lazy
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
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
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
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
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
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
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
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
I write in the novel’s afterword that our recent wars “finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy”.
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Enemy War Writing
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

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