Quotes by John Hersey

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence,...

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The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for...

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The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom...

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The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing...

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The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered...

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Many people who did not die right away came down with nausea, headache, diarrhea, malaise,...

#John Hersey

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

#John Hersey

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live...

#John Hersey

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as...

#John Hersey

And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were...

#John Hersey

All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them....

#John Hersey

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live...

#Journalism