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

Chris Cleave

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
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
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
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
Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well– here is the truth– you have to talk yourself out of it.
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Girl Looks Stories
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
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
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
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
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
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
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
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
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
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar

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

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