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Martha Gellhorn Quotes

Martha Gellhorn quotes

American Journalist November 8, 1908 – February 15, 1998

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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. Martha Gellhorn
The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable. Martha Gellhorn
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. Martha Gellhorn
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. Martha Gellhorn
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
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
Martha Gellhorn quote: "I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have..."
I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn quote: "I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany..."
I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began. Martha Gellhorn
Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation. Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn quote: "It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due..."
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn quote: "I didn't write. I just wandered about."
I didn't write. I just wandered about. Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn quote: "I followed the war wherever I could reach it."
I followed the war wherever I could reach it. Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn quote: "the ends never justify the means because IT never ends."
the ends never justify the means because IT never ends. Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn quote: "Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to..."
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn quote: "I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents."
I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents. Martha Gellhorn

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