"Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the……" — 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."
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Martha Gellhorn
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41 Quotes by Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn has 41 quotes on this site.
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I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.
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If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
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Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an…
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The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good…
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I followed the war wherever I could reach it.
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But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes…
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I didn't write. I just wandered about.
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I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.
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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…
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I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.
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I’m not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future, or any…
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America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are…
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More Abandoned Quotes
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when…
— William Bartram
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have…
— Bernard Baruch
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Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is…
— Martha Beck
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
— Halle Berry
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and…
— Martin Van Buren
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Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side.…
— Robert Byrd
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The…
— David Cameron
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Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned…
— Giles Andreae
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Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours.…
— Charlotte Gray
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Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we…
— Peter Mayle
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