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I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.

Chris Cleave

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Behalf Books Movies
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn 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
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
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
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
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
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
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Differences Mean Two
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
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

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