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"10 John Hersey Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 17 June 1914. Died: 24 March 1993 | Writer | Journalist |

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

Learning Starts Failure Education
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The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

Work Art Beauty Power
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The reality is that changes are coming... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

Reality Changes Come Share
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Events are less important than our responses to them.

Events Important Responses
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It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

Failure Children Weapon Talents
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The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.

Writer Invent License Read
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To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over.

Writer Deal Satisfied
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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

Journalism Readers History Live
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Mankind must destroy anti-humanity before it becomes extinct itself.

Mankind Destroy Humanity Extinct
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our life is short, we don’t live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile

Life Short Live
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John Hersey Quotes & Sayings