Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He … - Martha Gellhorn

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If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.

Martha Gellhorn

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.

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People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics. ' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future. '. . . If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.

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

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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.

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After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

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Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.

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