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I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

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
Worst
Five
Continents
Partner
Partners
Bed

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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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the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.
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Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.
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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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I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.
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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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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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The world's fat is badly divided.
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My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
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Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.
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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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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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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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