We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - … - Pat Barker

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I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

Pat Barker

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.

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Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

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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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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 author knows better than the characters what they should do.

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

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