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The Child Buyer (1960)
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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.
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Learning starts with failure, the first failure is the beginning of education.
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I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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John Richard Hersey
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Born:
June 17, 1914
Died:
March 24, 1993
(aged 78)
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