"My two major faults are that I row……" — John Hersey
"My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women"
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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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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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The reality is that changes are coming... They must come. You must share in bringing them.
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More Faults Quotes
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
— Teresa of Avila
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
— Teresa of Avila
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults.…
— Teresa of Avila
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If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always…
— Richard Bach
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that…
— James Truslow Adams
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
— Samuel Beckett
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
— Samuel Beckett
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in…
— Kristen Bell
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What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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