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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

Chris Cleave

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
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Alive Mean Stories
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
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.
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Generations Golden Thinking
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
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don’t always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn’t have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I’m interested in the exceptions.
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Anger Hate 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
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.
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Hope Missing Without Young
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
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 think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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Guy School Thinking
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

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