"the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world."

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Source : Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.220, Granta Books

Martha Gellhorn

#World Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Protection Quotes

“My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.”
“But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.”

Source : Olive Ann Burns (2007). “Cold Sassy Tree”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush.”
“Game calls cant be just, Oh, by the way, as part of a larger discussion.”
“The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.”
“I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused.”
“Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.”
“Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to.”

Source : Karen White (2009). “The Lost Hours”, p.256, Penguin

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