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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.

— Martha Gellhorn

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

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir (1978)

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.

[T]he private detective, with his mocking smile and cold wit, his chivalry, his magic appeal to women, his Charvet ties...

Point of no return (1948)

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