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Martha Gellhorn Quotes

Martha Gellhorn quotes

American Journalist November 8, 1908 – February 15, 1998

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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. Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn quote: "I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't..."
I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started. Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn quote: "Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very..."
Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed. Martha Gellhorn
If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me. Martha Gellhorn
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. Martha Gellhorn
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. Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn quote: "travel is compost for the mind"
travel is compost for the mind Martha Gellhorn
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
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. Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn quote: "It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and..."
It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory. Martha Gellhorn
War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. Martha Gellhorn
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
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
Martha Gellhorn quote: "I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man..."
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. Martha Gellhorn
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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