"Then somebody suggested I should write about the……" — 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"
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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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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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In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed…
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No, indeed; I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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