John Hersey Quotes

• A gifted glassblower of language.

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• Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

  John Hersey

• The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills – when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels.

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• The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.

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• The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells – caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls.

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• Many people who did not die right away came down with nausea, headache, diarrhea, malaise, and fever, which lasted several days. Doctors could not be certain whether some of these symptoms were the result of radiation or nervous shock.

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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 for profit and defense.

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• And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped.

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• 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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• What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it’s been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

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• Journalism allows it’s readers to witness history. Fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

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John Hersey (11)

Birth:	17th June, 1914
Death:	24th March, 1993
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Professor

About

John Richard Hersey was born in Tianjin, China. He was an American novelist, journalist and professor. He studied at Yale University and the University of Cambridge. He worked for Time, life, and The New Yorker. He taught his last class in fiction writing at Yale during 1984. He wrote several novels include: A Bell for Adano (Won- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1945), The Child Buyer (Nominations: National Book Award for Fiction), The Wall (Won- National Jewish Book Award for Fiction), The War Lover (Nominations: National Book Award for Fiction), White Lotus, Under the Eye of the Storm, The Conspiracy, My Petition for More Space, The Walnut Door, The Call, A single pebble (Nominations: National Book Award for Fiction), and Antonietta. He wrote other books include: Hiroshima, Aspects of the Presidency, Of Men and War, Too Far to Walk, Letter to the Alumni, Blues, and Into the Valley.

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