Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
From Martha Gellhorn
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.
The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.
I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.
I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.
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