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John Hersey has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which…
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There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.
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It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate…
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The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.
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My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women
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Events are less important than our responses to them.
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At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb…
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What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific…
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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
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The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose.…
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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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Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts
— Roger Moore
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should…
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When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are…
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If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any…
— Patrick Lencioni
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I train very hard, either rowing on the cross trainer or running. Not only do you feel tired afterwards but it relaxes…
— Barry McGuigan
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
— Nancy Greene
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In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with…
— Bryan Volpenhein
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Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly…
— David Halberstam
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In rowing as in life, there are competitors and there are racers. The competitor works hard and rows to his limit. The…
— Jim Dietz
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Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream.
— Jim Dietz
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If you want to know why you didn't make a boat -- I'll tell you. You're just out there hammering the water.…
— Jim Dietz
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The ship is going by a mighty engine, and you are busy rowing.
— Mooji
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