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In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which…

— K'naan

Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage of understanding…

— Ilhan Omar

I had a nice childhood. War and all the experiences affected me as a person and helped me to grow, to change.

— Novak Djokovic

With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many…

— C. S. Lewis

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

— Oscar Wilde

I had created a happy world of make-believe around me during the long years of loneliness, a world of beauty and love. It had…

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.

— Kenneth Branagh

In one sense, I have always felt glad to have had the war [World War II] in my childhood, because, as a result, nothing…

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I wished to have the time to put together a world view, but there was never enough time, and also, those who had it…

— Sheila Heti

As a child I'm sure I was no different from any other human being struggling to navigate the difficulties and complexities of their childhood…

— Sam Levinson

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

— Julie Andrews

I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience.…

— Linda Grant