John Hersey Quotes
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast.
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I don't want artists to find themselves in a situation where there are only two buyers. That just doesn't seem like a good outcome.
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The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss--a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.
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Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
