John Hersey Quotes

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

- John Hersey

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

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

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