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Sometimes, instead of shouting revolutionary slogans he simply told the Fascists how much better we were fed than they were.
His account of the Government rations was apt to be a little imaginative. 'Buttered toast!'-you could hear his voice echoing across the lonely valley— We're just sitting down to buttered toast over here! Lovely slices of buttered toast!'

They say it takes a thousand bullets to kill a man, and at this rate it would be twenty years before I killed my first Fascist.

this book is rly funny

Goodness knows how many times the Spanish standard of marksmanship has saved my life.
Nothing will convince a Spaniard, at least a young Spaniard, that fire-arms are dangerous...
"Don't fire," I said half-jokingly as I focused the camera.
"Oh, no, we won't fire."
The next moment there was a frightful roar and a stream of bullets tore past my face so close that my cheek was stung by grains of cordite.

"This is not a war," he used to say, "it is a comic opera with an occasional death."

i can just imagine blanca ripoll saying ts

The one Spanish word that no foreigner can avoid learning is “mañana.”

Whenever it is conceivably possible, the business of today is put off until mañana..


In Spain nothing, from a meal to a battle, ever happens at the appointed time. As a general rule things happen too late, but just occasionally—just so that you shan't even be able to depend on their happening late—they happen too early.

long ahh intro