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• Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

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  Outsiders, Inquiring, Bureaucracy

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.313, Granta Books

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• Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.

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  Long, Life Is, Enough

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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• War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

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  War, Imagination, People

  "Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life". Book by Caroline Moorehead, 2003.

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• Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

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  People, Journalism

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• 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.

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  Pain, Fall, Tree

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• The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things.

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  Race, Quality, Survivor

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• It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

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  Imagination, Bitterness, Would Be

  "Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life". Book by Caroline Moorehead, 2003.

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• My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

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  Journey, Boredom, Definitions

  Martha Gellhorn (2001). “Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir”, p.224, Penguin

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• I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

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  Creativity, Imagination, Innovation

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.4, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• The world's fat is badly divided.

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  World, Rich, Poor

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.79, Granta Books

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• I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

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  War, Umpires

  Martha Gellhorn (2014). “The Face of War”, p.83, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

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  Bed, Partners, Worst

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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• 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.

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  Our World, Government, Needs

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.356, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• You have to stop living in order to write.

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  Writing, Order

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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• 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.

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  Country, Data, Numbers

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.280, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help-because the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won.

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  Hurt, War, Heart

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• 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.

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  War, Heart, Men

  Martha Gellhorn (2014). “The Face of War”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

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  France, Concentration, Camps

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• [On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.

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  Beautiful, Cities, Paris

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• 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.

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  Country, Kindness, Promise

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• the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

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  Imagination, England, Alarmists

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.38, Granta Books

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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.

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  People, Feelings, Want

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.123, Granta Books

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• People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

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  Years, Weather, Voice

  Martha Gellhorn (1959). “The Face of War”

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• If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

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  Sex, Moral, Defeat

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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• A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.

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  Broken Heart, Hate, Disease

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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