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1. "I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother." ~ Martha Gellhorn
2. "Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed." ~ Martha Gellhorn
3. "travel is compost for the mind" ~ Martha Gellhorn
4. "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
5. "I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person." ~ Martha Gellhorn
6. "Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it." ~ Martha Gellhorn
7. "Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit." ~ Martha Gellhorn
8. "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
9. "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
10. "I didn't write. I just wandered about." ~ Martha Gellhorn
11. "I followed the war wherever I could reach it." ~ Martha Gellhorn
12. "If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat." ~ Martha Gellhorn
13. "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
14. "It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory." ~ Martha Gellhorn
15. "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
16. "I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents." ~ Martha Gellhorn
17. "I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began." ~ Martha Gellhorn
18. "I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started." ~ Martha Gellhorn
19. "There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on." ~ Martha Gellhorn
20. "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
21. "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
22. "But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did." ~ Martha Gellhorn
23. "In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen." ~ Martha Gellhorn
24. "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
25. "I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same." ~ Martha Gellhorn
26. "What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain." ~ Martha Gellhorn

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So when you do get on, the first class people are already sitting there; they're all sprawled out on their big thrones. "Bring me the head of a pig! And a goblet of something cool and refreshing! Anyone have a fiddle? Amuse me."
Author: Brian Regan

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