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Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.
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
Days
Enough
Long
Never
Life
Indeed
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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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Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.
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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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It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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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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I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.
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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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I didn't write. I just wandered about.
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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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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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