Martha Gellhorn Quotes - Page 3

• A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.

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  Broken Heart, Hate, Disease

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

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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, el senador republicano junior de Wisconsin, gobernó América como el rey diablo durante cuatro años. Sus purgas fueron un reflejo estadounidense de las purgas de Stalin, una similitud inadvertida.

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  Kings, Mirrors, Years

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

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• Es encantadora la forma en que todo el mundo en el Sur dice: 'Vuelve'. Es la despedida reglamentaria en gasolineras, fuentes de soda, almacenes generales, campamentos turísticos. Vuelve', dicen, 'vuelve'. ¿Se sienten abandonados en un lugar, perdidos, necesitados de creer que alguien volverá para compartir su exilio en las similares calles principales, en la variada pero siempre nueva tierra?

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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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• Me siento muy perturbado en la cabeza y en el corazón.

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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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• 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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• Tras los años desesperados de su propia guerra, tras seis años de represión dentro de España y seis años de horror en el exilio, este pueblo permanece intacto de espíritu. Están armados con una fe trascendente; nunca han vencido y, sin embargo, nunca han aceptado la derrota.

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  Guerra, Años, Gente

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• Me enteré de la guerra de España porque estaba en Alemania cuando empezó.

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  War, Germany, Found

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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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• Entre sus ojos había cuatro líneas, las marcas de una miseria que los niños nunca deberían sentir. Hablaba con esa maravillosa voz de whisky que tienen tantos niños españoles, y era un chiquillo duro y entero.

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  Children, Eye, Boys

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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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  País, Hogar, Lucha

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

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  Escribir

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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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