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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 of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.
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In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.
Martha Gellhorn
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Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.
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You have to stop living in order to write.
Martha Gellhorn -
All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.
Martha Gellhorn -
It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.
Martha Gellhorn -
Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison, with its infamous motto, 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' and when I walked out at the end of a day that had no ordinary scale of hours, I was changed, and how I looked at the human condition, the world we live in, changed ... Years of war had taught me a great deal, but war was nothing like Dachau. Compared to Dachau, war was clean.
Martha Gellhorn -
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
Martha Gellhorn
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Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.
Martha Gellhorn -
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 -
By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.
Martha Gellhorn -
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 -
I feel very troubled in the head and heart.
Martha Gellhorn -
perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange to Americans and they will not be at home here, for the air will slowly become unbreathable to all forms of life except sheep.
Martha Gellhorn
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I didn't write. I just wandered about.
Martha Gellhorn -
Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.
Martha Gellhorn -
We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I have come to regard statistics with doubt and merely as a hint of the probable shape of fact.
Martha Gellhorn -
I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.
Martha Gellhorn -
In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.
Martha Gellhorn