3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Martha Gellhorn It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Martha Gellhorn And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.
