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War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which

War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Martha Gellhorn
War, Imagination, People
"Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life". Book by Caroline Moorehead, 2003.

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Martha Gellhorn
Imagination, Bitterness, Would Be
"Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life". Book by Caroline Moorehead, 2003.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

Martha Gellhorn
Creativity, Imagination, Innovation
Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.4, Atlantic Monthly Press

the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

Martha Gellhorn
Imagination, England, Alarmists
Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.38, Granta Books

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