"The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP."

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John Hersey

#Legends Quotes #Made Quotes

“Hard floorings such as marble, wood, terrazzo and linoleum, have become fashionable of late, but I believe they create a characterless "international" style that is as opposed to interpretation as it is repellent to the foot.”

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“It's only the body that's gone. Only the body. There's a part that doesn't go in the ground, a part that stays inside you forever.”
“I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.”
“Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and yet always flying before them, becomes at once their sole torment and their sole happiness. Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery which is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.”
“The 'harmonious world' theory .. will help dispel doubts in the international community about China's continued development and refute the absurd 'China threat theory'.”
“Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.”
“How I regret now that my perpetual emotional dependence on the man I love has killed all my other talents - my energy too: and I had such a lot of that once.”
“I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.”

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