“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
Author: Martha Gellhorn
Category: truth
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And though various organizations in America and
“And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.”
— Martha Gellhorn
Author: Martha Gellhorn
Category: food
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It would be a bitter cosmic joke
“It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.”
— Martha Gellhorn
Author: Martha Gellhorn
Category: imagination
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After the desperate years of their own
“After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.”
— Martha Gellhorn
Author: Martha Gellhorn
Category: faith
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