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I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and...

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What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human...

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I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

I do not hope for a world at peace, all of it, all the time. I do not believe in the perfectibility ...

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The Face of War

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians be...

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On the night of New Year’s Day, I thought of a wonderful New Year’s resolution for the men who run t...

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The Face of War

No wars, in the war-logged record of our species, have been terminal. Until now, when we know that n...

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The Face of War

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

Travels With Myself and Another

I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude...

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Travels With Myself and Another

Our hearts are light and gay because now its happening, we're starting, we're travelling again.

... none had been outside Russia. I kept trying to remember something that I had read about a specie...

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Travels With Myself and Another

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years...

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Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the wa...

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It is high time that I learn to be more careful about hope, a reckless emotion for travelers. The se...

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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 ...

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The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally use...

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

In Warsaw, you also remember that you are in a Communist-controlled country, though by all accounts ...

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The View from the Ground

I had a sudden notion of why history is such a mess: humans do not live long enough. We only learn f...

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Travels With Myself and Another

A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are...

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Martha Gellhorn

Novelist

Born: 1908-11-08

Died: 1998-02-15

Martha Ellis Gellhorn (8 November 1908 – 15 February 1998) was an American war correspondent and novelist. She covered nearly every war during the twentieth century.More