Quotes by John Hersey

John Hersey

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.

Girl

Morning

Past

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.

Firsts

Life Is Short

Patient

Events are less important than our responses to them.

Events

Important

Response

I thought of God as being able to talk big and write very small.

Able

Bigs

Writing

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.

Children

Fall

Vision

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

Giving

Opportunity

Writing

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

Firsts

Hiroshima

Teach

My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women

Faults

Long

Two

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?

Evil

Spiritual

War

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

Art

Finals

Tests

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Age

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Art

Bigs

Body

Book

Change

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Country

Dream

Events

Evil

Fall

Falling In Love

Faults

Fever

Finals

Firsts

Flames

Girl

Giving

Hair

Hiroshima

Hiroshima And Nagasaki

Important

Legends

License

Life Is Short

Long

Made

Memories

Morning

Normal

Opportunity

Pain

Past

Patient

Real

Reality

Response

Satisfied

Silence

Spiritual

Teach

Tests

Tin

Two

Type

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Quotes by John Hersey

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.

Events are less important than our responses to them.

I thought of God as being able to talk big and write very small.

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.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

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

My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women

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?

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

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