- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
The night before Tilbury, the Cordon Bleu gourmet dinner turned out Cordon Brown. Six out of ten to the chef for trying and ten out of ten to us for eating it.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Driver Shepherd and I had been detailed to drive Lt. Budden in the Wireless Truck. We had been standing by vehicles for an hour, and nothing had happened, but it happened frequently.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea - which can be very persistent and irritating - that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember lying out in my bed and looking at the vast, quiet sky. Right up above my head, there were three stars in a row, and I remember thinking, 'Well, I'll have those three stars all my life, and wherever I am, they will be. They are my stars, and they belong to me.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents always threw everything out, gave everything away. I'm surprised they never threw me away. That's why I've always kept my children's things. My parents had no feelings for belongings.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mother rode a horse and sang in the Governor-General's band, so that made her important as well.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father being a soldier, every time I saw soldiers marching - 'Well,' I thought, 'my father's that,' and these soldiers were always looking magnificent. And I thought they were powerful; they were all-powerful. I knew that they were an elite in India.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was implanted in me that I came from a different class - an elevated class. I was cushioned by servants. I don't remember doing anything for myself. I only played and went to school.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You couldn't enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to so many animals.
- Clocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't stand being late. I try to be professional. I try not to let people down. But people let me down. That's why I don't rely on anyone to call me. That's why I have clocks as well as people. I have to be able to call myself; it's the only way to be sure.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things began to improve when I went to Rangoon. To begin with, my father was promoted, which meant he was at home more. The matriarchal society was ended, and for the first time, I went to a boys' school.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One important thing I recall about India was that it was quiet. It was never noisy in the way that life was noisy in London.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had stopped going to church the moment I joined the Regiment. No more could my mother nag me into God's presence.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
May 8th 1943. Deluge. The rain not only fell mainly on the plain in Spain; it also fell mainly on the back of the bloody neck, dripping down the spine into the socks where it came out of the lace-holes in the boots.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. 'Private Edwards, E.', a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago he was alive, thinking feeling, hoping... If war was a game of cards, I'd say someone was cheating.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
We reach a secondary road and - here comes the bonus - we pass the Temple of Neptune and Cerene, at Paestum, both looking beautiful in the sunlight. Strung from the Doric columns are lines of soldiers' washing. At last they had been put to practical use. If only the ancient Greeks had known.
- Every Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lunacy continues and has every chance of becoming a way of life unless we stop it soon. Men are getting so used to wars that the psychiatric wing of the RAMC are planning how to break the news to the men when the war is over.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unbeknown to me, my manager, under my very nose (in a crouching position) has all these years been secretly compiling a book from my correspondence. I often wondered what she was doing in my office. She never did a stroke of work for me. All the time, I have been working for her.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can speak Esperanto like a native.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a hero with coward's legs.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's all in the mind, you know.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020