Expensive Quote by Martha Gellhorn

“Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.”

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Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

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All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

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“This was not the velvet embracing desert sky at El Geneina; this was infinite space. The idea of no boundaries, no end, is terrifying in the abstract and much worse if you are looking at it. The far-off stars were an icy crust; the darkness beyond the stars was more than I could handle. The machinery that keeps me going…

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I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.

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the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

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My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

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Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of…

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Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

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I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

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Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.

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In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits…

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Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

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I have a daughter in college myself. It's an expensive thing.

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