John Richard Hersey was an American writer and journalist.
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“Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.”
John Hersey
“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.”
“Not a particular country, not a particular city, and not a particular people.”