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  1. Martha Gellhorn _ Travels with Myself and

    The latrine broke my lion heart.
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  2. Martha Gellhorn _ Travels with Myself and

    Impatience leading swiftly to boredom is my vice, not panic.
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  3. Martha Gellhorn _ Travels with Myself and

    The white hunter was laughing happily, his adoring girl was open-mouthed in admiration for his nerve, I was sweating with dismay and outrage, and then an elephant charged and did not stop and our hero stepped hard on the gas and drove off, saying, "Not bluffing that time." So now I knew, lucky me, what a medium-size elephant stampede was like. Doomed to see elephants in the company of lunatics. All I wanted was to watch them with love and respect, at a reasonable distance.
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  4. Martha Gellhorn _ Travels with Myself and

    This was not the velvet embracing desert sky at El Geneina; this was infinite space. The idea of no boundaries, no end, is terrifying in the abstract and much worse if you are looking at it. The far-off stars were an icy crust; the darkness beyond the stars was more than I could handle. The machinery that keeps me going is not geared to cope with infinity and eternity as so clearly displayed in that sky.
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  5. Martha Gellhorn _ Travels with Myself and

    Slowly we wound uphill past fields and thick forest until we reached the eastern edge of the Rift Valley. Far below, as far as I could see, lay the golden plain ringed by blue mountains. It was true, it was there, and more magical than I had ever pictured it.
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  6. Martha Gellhorn _ Travels with Myself and

    Here one has the perfect example of justice: the men have kept their women enslaved-the Arabs more than the Christian Copts-kept them stupid and limited and apart, for their male vanity and power; result: the dull women bore the daylights out of the men.
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  7. Martha Gellhorn _ Travels with Myself and

    It is high time that I learn to be more careful about hope, a reckless emotion for travellers. The sensible approach would be to expect the worst, the very worst; that way you avoid grievous disappointment and who knows, with a tiny bit of luck, you might even have a moderately pleasant surprise, like the difference between hell and purgatory.
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  8. Martha Gellhorn _ Travels with Myself and

    Always delighted to grab any privileges I can get, I don't like the sense of being privileged by law.
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  9. Martha Gellhorn _ Travels with Myself and

    I felt both puny and pretentious, trying to write in the grandeur of that natural world where everything was older than time and I was the briefest object in the landscape.
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  10. Martha Gellhorn _ Travels with Myself and

    Since I am devoted to my own freedom, I didn't think it just to deny other people theirs; and a basic freedom must be to be bossed by your own kind, not by foreigners.
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