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

— John Hersey

#fiction #gives #history #journalism #live

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

— John Hersey

#education #failure #first #learning #starts

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

#blast #body #broke #burns #caused

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#except #i #me #parents #treat

I don't think I ever had a swollen head: I remember where I come from. ↗

— Eva Herzigova

#ever #had #head #i #i remember

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#faith #huge #i #life #my life

By the time I was five, I was a little diva. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#diva #five #i #little #time

I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing. ↗

— Lesley Nicol

#done #i #mean #musicals #thing

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

I don't like the idea of famous people. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#famous people #i #idea #like #people