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We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.

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Michael Morpurgo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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St. Albans
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo
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There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?
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I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your story, whether it be to the stage or to the screen.
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Stories make you think and dream books make you want to ask questions.
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It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.
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Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.
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If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.
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I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.
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As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
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