Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard (but what does that mean now?) we are objects of horror. But our nerves are completely steady. And we are still alive.

Pat Barker's Popular Quotes

Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms. It was …

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You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the autho…

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A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

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It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

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The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

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I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

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Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

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Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

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