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Events are less important than our responses to them.
John Hersey / Writer
Events
Important
Response
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I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.
John Hersey / Writer
Able
Bigs
Writing
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My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women
John Hersey / Writer
Faults
Long
Two
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Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
John Hersey / Writer
Education
Learning
Failure
Firsts
Hiroshima
Teach
Beginning
First
Starts
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The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.
John Hersey / Writer
Art
Finals
Tests
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The reality is that changes are coming... They must come. You must share in bringing them.
John Hersey / Writer
Change
Reality
Share
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The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.
John Hersey / Writer
Legends
License
Made
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There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.
John Hersey / Writer
Age
Book
Tin
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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
John Hersey / Writer
Opportunity
Fiction
Giving
Journalism
Witness
Writing
Readers
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To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over.
John Hersey / Writer
Satisfied
Type
Writing
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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.
John Hersey / Writer
Failure
Children
Defense
Fabricate
Fall
Materials
Profit
Regard
Vision
Weapons
Talents
Mine
National
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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.
John Hersey / Writer
Falling In Love
Fever
Hair
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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 high as 106, came next.
John Hersey / Writer
Bombing
Cases
Diarrhea
Fever
Fifteen
Ten
Falling
Symptom
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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.
John Hersey / Writer
Affected
Ingenuity
Became
Nature Time Women
Processes
Protecting
Reproductive
Sterile
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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.
John Hersey / Writer
War
Deterrence
Happened
Hiroshima
Hiroshima And Nagasaki
Memories
Safe
Weapons
Since
Bomb
Memory
Sense
Specific
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To my great surprise, I never heard anyone cry out in the disorder, even though they suffered in great agony. They died in silence, with no grudge, setting their teeth to bear it. All for the country!
John Hersey / Writer
Agony
Country
Silence
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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.
John Hersey / Writer
Cursed
Particular
Sigh
Ten
General
Watched
Hulk
Plane
Turned
Turtle
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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.
John Hersey / Writer
Body
Higher
Instance
Levels
Normal
Stage
White
Came
Compensate
Count
Ills
Increased
Struggled
Reaction
Returned
Third
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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.
John Hersey / Writer
Certain
Diarrhea
Doctors
Fever
Headache
Nervous
Radiation
Shock
Symptoms
Away
Days
Came
Could
Down
Lasted
Result
Right Away
Several
Whether
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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.
John Hersey / Writer
Firsts
Life Is Short
Patient
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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.
John Hersey / Writer
Beta
Direct
Doctors
Particles
Rays
Sickness
Stage
Bomb
Dealing
Gamma
Moment
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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.
John Hersey / Writer
Blast
Broke
Destroyed
Doctors
Effects
Radiation
Rays
Retrospect
Caused
Absorb
Burns
Dead
Degenerate
Simply
Suffered
Realized
Walls
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The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?
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War
Evil
Spiritual
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At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.
John Hersey / Writer
Girl
Morning
Past
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To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone - just plain going at it, in pain and delight. To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again, and once more, and over and over...
John Hersey / Writer
Flames
Pain
Writing
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When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between the conscious management of what you're doing and this state. . . . I would say that it's related to daydreaming. When I feel really engaged with a passage, I become so lost in it that I'm unaware of my real surroundings, totally involved in the pictures and sounds that that passage evokes.
John Hersey / Writer
Dream
Real
Writing
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