"Events are less important than our responses to…" — John Hersey
"Events are less important than our responses to them."
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John Hersey
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21 Quotes by John Hersey
John Hersey has 21 quotes on this site.
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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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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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The reality is that changes are coming... They must come. You must share in bringing them.
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More Events Quotes
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn…
— Richard Bach
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to…
— Richard Bach
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do…
— Michelle Bachelet
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a…
— David Bailey
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It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name…
— Nicholson Baker
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the…
— Russell Baker
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Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also…
— Javier Bardem
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
— Amelia Barr
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