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Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn
American Journalist
Born: Nov 8, 1908
Died: Feb 15, 1998
About Daily Own People War Write
Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. Martha Gellhorn
Citizen Tough Own Citizenship Make Occupation Opinion His Which Informed Stand
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives. Martha Gellhorn
Great Age People Old Car Complaining Old Age Those Out Find Fine Wearing Horrors Feel Like Talk Terrible Parts Gradually Done Wanted Who Growing Growing Old Why Lives
I followed the war wherever I could reach it. Martha Gellhorn
War Followed Could Reach Wherever
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. Martha Gellhorn
War Somebody See About Could Write Know Understand Said How Did Anything Then Should Suggested
The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable. Martha Gellhorn
Dark Field Out Some Lay Through Vegetable Road Like Passed Came Pine Forest Germans Snow Rolling Flat Curtain Bodies Thick
I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. Martha Gellhorn
Logical Mysteries Met Complications See Steadily Never Look Person Wherever
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. Martha Gellhorn
Joke Imagination Destroy Bitter Ourselves Would Would-Be Cosmic Atrophy Due
I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents. Martha Gellhorn
Partner Worst Bed Continents Five
I didn't write. I just wandered about. Martha Gellhorn
About Write Just Wandered
Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy. Martha Gellhorn
Eyes Wonderful Tough Marks Entire Voice Misery Never He Spoke Feel Between Boy Were His Lines Children Spanish Little Whisky Should Many Four
There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on. Martha Gellhorn
France Ten Concentration Were Camps
It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory. Martha Gellhorn
Women Victory Men Half France Alleged Women And Children Children After Spanish Million
And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish. Martha Gellhorn
Food Money Nothing Though Collected Various America Refugees Spanish Sent Organizations England Ever Received
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. Martha Gellhorn
War Faith People Desperate Own Defeat Inside Spirit Horror Remain Never Armed Accepted Intact Exile Years Won Six Transcendent Repression After Spain

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