"I tell you loneliness is the thing to……" — Martha Gellhorn
"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."
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Martha Gellhorn
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41 Quotes by Martha Gellhorn
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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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