John Hersey Quotes
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
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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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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 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 just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.
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Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop evolving (and social evolution inevitably dovetails with the agenda of those who see change as an abstract positive). It might take seventy years, but it always happens eventually. Serious historians are, almost without exception, self-styled progressives. Radical views--even the awful ones--improve with age.
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
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all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand
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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
