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• I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Writing, Blood, Bottles

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• 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.

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  Depressing, Lonely, Writing

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

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• Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.

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  Kings, Mirrors, Years

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.158, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains, general stores, tourist camps. 'Come back,' they call, 'come back.' Do they feel marooned in one place, lost, needing to believe someone will return to share their exile on the similar main streets, in the varied but always new-looking land?

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  Believe, Farewell, Land

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.85, Atlantic Monthly Press

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

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  Children, Men, Victory

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• The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.

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  Proud, Causes, Week

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.130, Granta Books

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• I feel very troubled in the head and heart.

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  Heart, Head And Heart, Feels

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

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• the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

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  Mean, Ends, Justify

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• 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

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  War, Writing, Should

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• 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.

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  World, Soup, Lucky

  "Collier's", Volume 115, p. 156, Crowell-Collier Publishing Compan, 1945.

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• 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.

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  War, Years, People

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• 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.

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  Country, Home, Fighting

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• I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

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  War, Germany, Found

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• 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.

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  Children, Eye, Boys

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• [On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.

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  People, United States, Looks

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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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  Garden, Done, Littles

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• I didn't write. I just wandered about.

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  Writing

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