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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 11 quotes by John Hersey John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reportage. Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest piece of American journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member... Read full biography of John Hersey → Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which in some cases went as... → 0 The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough... → 0 And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had... → 0 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... → 0 Add a quote!


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