Martha Gellhorn's Profile
Brief about Martha Gellhorn: By info that we know Martha Gellhorn was born at 1908-11-08. And also Martha Gellhorn is American Journalist.
Some Martha Gellhorn's quotes. Goto "Martha Gellhorn's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Age, Car, GreatCitizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
Tags: Opinion, Stand, ToughI see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
Tags: Logical, Mysteries, WhereverGradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
Tags: Lies, Realize, TruthIt would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
Tags: Bitter, Joke, OurselvesBetween 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.
Tags: Children, Eyes, ToughAfter 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.
Tags: After, Faith, WarIf I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
Tags: Enjoy, Moral, SexFurthermore, 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.
Tags: Daily, Lucky, SoupThousand 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.
Tags: Away, Kindness, PromisesI only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.
Tags: Daily, Life, WhyIt is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.
Tags: Children, Men, WomenAnd though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.
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