"All morning they watched for the plane which……" — John Hersey
"All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle."
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21 Quotes by John Hersey
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To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then…
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The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and…
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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,…
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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…
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What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear…
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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…
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Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is…
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