Martha Gellhorn

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Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

Martha Gellhorn
age
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After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

Martha Gellhorn
faith
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And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.

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food
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It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Martha Gellhorn
imagination
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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

Martha Gellhorn
truth
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Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

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citizenship , tough , occupation
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I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

Martha Gellhorn
see , mysteries , complications
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I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

Martha Gellhorn
followed , war , wherever
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If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... Seemed a defeat.

Martha Gellhorn
out , moral , enjoy
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I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

Martha Gellhorn
worst , bed , partner
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I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

Martha Gellhorn
found , out , spanish
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I didn't write. I just wandered about.

Martha Gellhorn
just , wandered
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I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.

Martha Gellhorn
only , knew , daily
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There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

Martha Gellhorn
were , ten , concentration
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It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.

Martha Gellhorn
alleged , half , million