Martha Gellhorn quotes - page 2

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. (Martha Gellhorn)

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.

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I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.

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And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.

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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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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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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.

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Martha Gellhorn

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Occupation: American Journalist
Born: November 8, 1908
Died: February 15, 1998
Quotes count: 32
Wikipedia: Martha Gellhorn

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