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Wilfred Burchett has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
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As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
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Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.
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In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and…
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Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it…
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Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out…
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Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that…
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When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a…
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Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
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In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of…
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My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.
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France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the…
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Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases…
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Playing (Serena) it always felt like playing a steamroller. No subtlety, no finesse, just raw, loud power. To respect this style of…
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Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it…
— Wilfred Burchett
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You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
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Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.
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We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a…
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It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a…
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