Quote by Martha Gellhorn
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow

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. – Martha Gellhorn

Other quotes by Martha Gellhorn

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? Its great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but Im not complaining,… Those who find growing old terrible are people who havent done what they wanted with their lives. – Martha Gellhorn

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Age
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After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. – Martha Gellhorn

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Faith
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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. – Katherine Mansfield

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This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. – Johann Arndt

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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Truth

Truth never damages a cause that is just. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Truth

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Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. – E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, 1960

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The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble and the rough male kiss of blankets. – Rupert Brooke

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cool

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. – Dante Alighieri

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Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesnt arrive. – Doug Coupland

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