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The Ghost Road (1995)
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Even the living were only ghosts in the making.
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First-person narrators can't die, so long as we keep telling the story of our own lives we're safe. Ha bloody fucking Ha.
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Another person's life, observed from outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.
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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.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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May 8, 1943
(age 81)
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