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Martha Gellhorn

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."

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Donna Grant

"I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car."

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Donna Grant

"I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive."

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Donna Grant

"I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed."

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Donna Grant

"One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with."

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Donna Grant

"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."

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Donna Grant

"I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime."

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Donna Grant

"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."

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Donna Grant

"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."

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Donna Grant

"One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car."

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Martha Gellhorn
"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."

Car

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Martha Gellhorn
"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."

Politics

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Martha Gellhorn
"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."

Faith

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Martha Gellhorn
"I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents."

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

Imagination

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Martha Gellhorn
"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."

War

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Martha Gellhorn
"Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it."

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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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Martha Gellhorn
"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."

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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."

Truth

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