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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
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I didn't write. I just wandered about.
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My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
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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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Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.
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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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I feel very troubled in the head and heart.
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I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.
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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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It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.
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Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.
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After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
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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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[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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Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.
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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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We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I have come to regard statistics with doubt and merely as a hint of the probable shape of fact.
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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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The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.
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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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Thousand got away to other countries thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
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