John Hersey Hiroshima Quotes

#1. I'm in between an installation artist, video artist and photographer. And when you work with nude bodies, you're immediately called a pornographer or a fashion photographer.

Spencer Tunick

#2. One recurring dream, many others have also: you go into a familiar house, discover a door or hallway, and find the house continues into hidden rooms. Sometimes a whole second house is there, a larger and unknown extension of the familiar dwelling.

Jane Hirshfield

#3. People do crazy things after a big loss.

Corey Ann Haydu

#4. There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

John Hersey

#5. 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.

John Hersey

#6. With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

Placido Domingo

#7. Even though it might appear otherwise from what I've said, I am not a racist. I should not have said what I did because it is not what I believe in my heart.

John Rocker