Martha Gellhorn Quotes

American - Journalist | November 8, 1908 - February 15, 1998

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

Martha Gellhorn

OpinionToughStandCitizenshipOwn

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.

Martha Gellhorn

CarAgeGreatOld AgePeopleFeel

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.

Martha Gellhorn

TruthHabitPeopleWillMoreTaste

The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.

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SnowRoadForestDarkPineOut

I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

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WarReachWhereverCouldFollowed

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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WarKnowSaidUnderstandWriteSee

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

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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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LookPersonNeverSeeI SeeLogical

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

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

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WarOutBecauseFoundSpanishBegan

I didn't write. I just wandered about.

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WriteJustAboutWandered

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