"People may correctly remember the events of twenty……" — Martha Gellhorn
"People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time."
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Martha Gellhorn
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41 Quotes by Martha Gellhorn
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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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