Martha Gellhorn

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

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.

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.