Phrase by 'Martha Gellhorn'

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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.

Author: Martha Gellhorn - American Journalist
  People , Age , Car , Old Age


Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

Author: Martha Gellhorn - American Journalist
  Tough , Opinion , Stand , Citizenship


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.

Author: Martha Gellhorn - American Journalist
  World , Lucky , Daily , Soup


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.

Author: Martha Gellhorn - American Journalist
  Away , Kindness , Promises , Concentration


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.

Author: Martha Gellhorn - American Journalist
  People , Will , Truth , Habit


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

Author: Martha Gellhorn - American Journalist
  Look , See , Never , Person


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

Author: Martha Gellhorn - American Journalist
  Destroy , Imagination , Joke , Bitter


I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

Author: Martha Gellhorn - American Journalist
  War , Reach , Could , Wherever


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

Author: Martha Gellhorn - American Journalist
  Moral , Enjoy , Sex , Defeat


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

Author: Martha Gellhorn - American Journalist
  Worst , Bed , Five , Partner


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