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Dunkirk
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And I realized that this is what it's like to be an adult, learning to pick from a lot of bad choices and do the best you can with that dreadful compromise. Learning to smile, to put your best foot forward, when the world around you seems to have collapsed in its entirety, become a place of isolation, a sepia photograph of its former illusion.
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― The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
― The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
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Now the 220,000 Tommies at Dunkirk, Britain’s only hope, seemed doomed. On the Flanders beaches they stood around in angular, existential attitudes, like dim purgatorial souls awaiting disposition.
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― The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932
― The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932
