John Hersey Quotes
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I guess I crave stability.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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I’d rather be dead than so suspicious I can’t trust anybody.
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Bringing humor and bringing happiness and joy to an audience is a wonderful opportunity in life, believe me.
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America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
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Sending $300 to your grandma in Cuba doesn't change the dynamic with Castro.
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The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.
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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
