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WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

Chris Cleave

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
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean 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
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
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
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
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
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
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
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
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

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

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