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My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.

Chris Cleave

I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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Chasing Destroy Died Writing
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
We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn’t start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.
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Brave Journey People
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
I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
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Stories Talking Writing
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
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
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
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
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
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 am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People

My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.

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