"...and the lousier the world the harder a writer should work. For if he can do nothing positive, to make the world more liveable or less cruel or stupid, he can at least record truly, and that is something no one else will do, and it's a job that must be done. It is the only revenge that all the bastardized people will ever get: that somebody writes down clearly what happened to them."
- Martha Gellhorn, 1941.