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And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.
- Martha Gellhorn
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There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.
- Martha Gellhorn
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In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.
- Martha Gellhorn
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I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.
- Martha Gellhorn
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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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I didn't write. I just wandered about.
- Martha Gellhorn
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I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.
- Martha Gellhorn
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#War
I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.
- Martha Gellhorn
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If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
- Martha Gellhorn
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I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
- Martha Gellhorn
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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.
- Martha Gellhorn
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#Eyes
#Feel
#Tough
#Voice
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
- Martha Gellhorn
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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
- Martha Gellhorn
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#People
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#Truth
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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.
- Martha Gellhorn
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#Find
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I followed the war wherever I could reach it.
- Martha Gellhorn
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Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
- Martha Gellhorn
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#Opinion
#Own
#Stand
#Tough
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