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• To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and…
• The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which…
• There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.
• It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate…
• The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.
• My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women
• Events are less important than our responses to them.
• At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb…
• What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific…
• Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
• The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose.…
• Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we…

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