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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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"Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car."

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"So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills."

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"We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant."

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"The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle."

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"There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car."

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"I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out."

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"Never have more children than you have car windows."

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"I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys."

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"It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car."

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"Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is."

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"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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"It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory."
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"Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it."
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"I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents."
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"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."
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