For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
AGNES SMEDLEYShe said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
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Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
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She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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