John Hersey

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. ↗

— John Hersey

#books #death #hiroshima #japan #ways-to-die

The price one pays for having a kind man at one’s elbow. ↗

— John Hersey

#marriage

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

— John Hersey

#religion #religion

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

— John Hersey

#education #failure #first #learning #starts

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

#against #became #had #his #ingenuity

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

#bomb #deterrence #fear #happened #hiroshima

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

#bombing #came #cases #days #diarrhea

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

#defense #fabricate #failure #materials #mine

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

— John Hersey

#fiction #gives #history #journalism #live