John Hersey quotes

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. (John Hersey)
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. View quote
John Hersey
The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. The main symptom was falling hair. Diarrhoea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next. View quote
John Hersey
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. View quote
John Hersey
There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. View quote
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. View quote
John Hersey
Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile. View quote
John Hersey
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. View quote
John Hersey
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. View quote
John Hersey