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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.

Chris Cleave

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
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
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
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
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
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
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
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
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

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