I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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I forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions.
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Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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Friendship is far more human.
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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
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I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
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