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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
Martha Gellhorn
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Martha Gellhorn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1908
Born: November 8
Died: 1998
Died: February 15
Journalist
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War Correspondent
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St. Louis
Missouri
Martha Ellis Gellhorn
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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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I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.
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But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.
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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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After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
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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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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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All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.
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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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I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.
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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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Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.
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