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Martha Gellhorn Quote: “I felt both puny and pretentious, trying to write in the grandeur of that natural world where everything was older than time and I was the briefest object in the landscape.”

51. “I felt both puny and pretentious, trying to write in the grandeur of that natural world where everything was older than time and I was the briefest object in the landscape.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “I didn’t write. I just wandered about.”

52. “I didn’t write. I just wandered about.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.”

53. “Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “The world’s fat is badly divided.”

54. “The world’s fat is badly divided.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “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.”

55. “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

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.”

56. “In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “It is high time that I learn to be more careful about hope, a reckless emotion for travelers. The sensible approach would be to the expect the worst, the very worst, that way you avoid grievous disappointment and who knows with a tiny bit of luck, you might even have a moderately pleasant surprise, like the difference between hell and purgatory.”

57. “It is high time that I learn to be more careful about hope, a reckless emotion for travelers. The sensible approach would be to the expect the worst, the very worst, that way you avoid grievous disappointment and who knows with a tiny bit of luck, you might even have a moderately pleasant surprise, like the difference between hell and purgatory.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “But the soul concerns me; and I am beginning to wonder whether it is wise or useful to spend so much time searching for one’s own.”

58. “But the soul concerns me; and I am beginning to wonder whether it is wise or useful to spend so much time searching for one’s own.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “As citizens, I think we all have an exhausting duty to now what our governments are up to, and it is cowardice or laziness to ask: what can I do about it anyway? Every squeak counts, if only in self-respect.”

59. “As citizens, I think we all have an exhausting duty to now what our governments are up to, and it is cowardice or laziness to ask: what can I do about it anyway? Every squeak counts, if only in self-respect.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without.”

60. “I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “Here one has the perfect example of justice: the men have kept their women enslaved... stupid and limited and apart, for their male vanity and power; result: the dull women bore the daylights out of the men.”

61. “Here one has the perfect example of justice: the men have kept their women enslaved... stupid and limited and apart, for their male vanity and power; result: the dull women bore the daylights out of the men.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “I do not hope for a world at peace, all of it, all the time. I do not believe in the perfectibility of man, which is what would be required for world peace; I only believe in the human race. I believe the human race must continue.”

62. “I do not hope for a world at peace, all of it, all the time. I do not believe in the perfectibility of man, which is what would be required for world peace; I only believe in the human race. I believe the human race must continue.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.”

63. “It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn’t mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.”

64. “If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn’t mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “He had no other life and no other knowledge; he knew that he could not live anywhere now because in his mind, slyly, there was nothing but horror.”

65. “He had no other life and no other knowledge; he knew that he could not live anywhere now because in his mind, slyly, there was nothing but horror.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “Once you get a tyranny, you don’t easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.”

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

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “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.”

67. “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

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “Our hearts are light and gay because now its happening, we’re starting, we’re travelling again.”

68. “Our hearts are light and gay because now its happening, we’re starting, we’re travelling again.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “If there is a war, then all of the things most of us do won’t matter any more. I have a feeling that one has to work all day and all night and live too, and swim and get the sun one’s hair and laugh and love as many people as one can find around and do this all terribly fast, because the time getting shorter and shorter every day.”

69. “If there is a war, then all of the things most of us do won’t matter any more. I have a feeling that one has to work all day and all night and live too, and swim and get the sun one’s hair and laugh and love as many people as one can find around and do this all terribly fast, because the time getting shorter and shorter every day.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “No wars, in the war-logged record of our species, have been terminal. Until now, when we know that nuclear war would be the death of our planet. It is beyond belief that any governments–those brief political figures–arrogate to themselves the right to stop history, at their discretion.”

70. “No wars, in the war-logged record of our species, have been terminal. Until now, when we know that nuclear war would be the death of our planet. It is beyond belief that any governments–those brief political figures–arrogate to themselves the right to stop history, at their discretion.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “In democracies where the citizens may read, hear or say what they like, the leaders are no better and no worse than the followers. So perhaps, if we cannot blame the leaders because the job of peacemaking is a sorry mess, we can only blame ourselves.”

71. “In democracies where the citizens may read, hear or say what they like, the leaders are no better and no worse than the followers. So perhaps, if we cannot blame the leaders because the job of peacemaking is a sorry mess, we can only blame ourselves.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.”

72. “From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.”

— Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn Quote: “Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.”

73. “Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.”

— Martha Gellhorn

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