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Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.

Martha Gellhorn

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Martha Gellhorn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1908
Born: November 8
Died: 1998
Died: February 15
Journalist
Novelist
War Correspondent
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Martha Ellis Gellhorn
Littles
Tough
Whiskey
Little
Boys
Spanish
Many
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Marks
Feel
Wonderful
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Eyes
Spoke
Children
Four
Misery
Never
Eye
Entire
Voice
Mark
Whisky

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America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help-because the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won.
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It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.
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The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.
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The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things.
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My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
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the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.
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A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.
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[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.
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Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.
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Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.
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Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.
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I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
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By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.
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I didn't write. I just wandered about.
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Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it
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From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.
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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.
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