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I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Martha Gellhorn

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Martha Gellhorn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1908
Born: November 8
Died: 1998
Died: February 15
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Missouri
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.
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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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It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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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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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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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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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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Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
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travel is compost for the mind
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the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.
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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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I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.
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I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.
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In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.
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I didn't write. I just wandered about.
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