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

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Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

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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.

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

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I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

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Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.

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But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.

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

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I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

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If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: November 8th, 1908

Died: February 15th, 1998

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