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"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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"I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage."
"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."
"Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road."
"One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves."
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"I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started."
"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."
"And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish."
"But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did."
"In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen."
"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."
"It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory."
"Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it."
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