But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
AGNES SMEDLEYI forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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There are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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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 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 loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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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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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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