![In one sense, I have always felt glad to have had the war [World War II] in my childhood, because, as a result, nothing that has happened in the world since then has ever seemed quite so bad. On the other hand, I never entirely got over my feeling of being cheated when the promised era of peace in a wonderful "post-war world" failed to materialize. I could not understand how, after all that, people could ever even think of fighting again. And I still can't.](/assets/img/quote-photos/in-one-sense-i-have-always-felt-glad-to-have-had-the-war-world-war-ii-in-my-ch.jpg)
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