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After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

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
Government
Endemic
Human
Carriers
Humans
Carrier
Governments
Lifetime
Watching
Disease
War

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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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Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.
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Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.
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My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
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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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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 only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.
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The world's fat is badly divided.
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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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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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I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.
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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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What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
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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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the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.
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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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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 didn't write. I just wandered about.
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the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.
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