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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

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
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
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
I’m always determined that as a novelist I’m going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.
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Character Research Writing
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn’t the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn’t deserve my own pity.
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Cry Pity Understood
This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.
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Ears Grief Moving
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
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
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
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage

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