“Let us pray". We all slumped immediately and unthinkingly in to the awkward crouch in which God was addressed.” — John Knowles Let Pray Copy Share Image
There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding — John Knowles Acceptance Copy Share Image
“I did not know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.” — John Knowles Knew Copy Share Image
The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward. — John Knowles Best teaching Copy Share Image
“Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half.” — John Knowles Feet Copy Share Image
Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence. — John Knowles Death Copy Share Image
“I did not stop to think that one wave is inevitably followed by another even larger and more powerful, when the tide… — John Knowles A-separate-peace Copy Share Image
It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something… — John Knowles Human heart Copy Share Image
“I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student… — John Knowles Fifteen years Copy Share Image
Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing… — John Knowles Children Copy Share Image
But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I… — John Knowles Deadly Copy Share Image
“Phineas just walked serenely on, or rather flowed on, rolling forward in his white sneakers with such unthinking unity of movement that… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than… — John Knowles Attended Copy Share Image
“I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town, but one which seemed to interrupt the beating of… — John Knowles A-separate-peace Copy Share Image
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful… — John Knowles Achieve Copy Share Image
“Like all old, good schools, Devon did not stand isolated behind walls and gates but emerged naturally from the town which had… — John Knowles Education Copy Share Image
It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated… — John Knowles Break Copy Share Image
“But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I… — John Knowles A-separate-peace Copy Share Image
“We were careless and wild, and I suppose we could be thought of as a sign of the life the war was… — John Knowles Life Copy Share Image
“Under the influence not I know of he hardest cider but of his own inner joy at life for a moment as… — John Knowles Choreography Copy Share Image
All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw… — John Knowles Cost Copy Share Image
“But Brinker came in. I think he made a point of visiting all the rooms near him the first day. “Well, Gene,”… — John Knowles A-separate-peace Copy Share Image
“The winter loves me', he retorted, and then, disliking the whimsical sound of that, added, 'I mean as much as you can… — John Knowles Winter Copy Share Image
“I think we reminded them of what peace was like, we boys of sixteen. We were registered with no draft board, we… — John Knowles A-separate-peace Copy Share Image
“Now, in this winter of snow and crutches with Phineas, I begin to know that each morning reasserted the problems of the… — John Knowles A-separate-peace Copy Share Image
“Now here it was after all, preserved by some considerate hand with varnisch and wax. Preserved along with it, like stale air… — John Knowles Absence Copy Share Image
“Finny always said what he happened to be thinking, and if this stunned people then he was surprised.” — John Knowles A-separate-peace Copy Share Image
“He was nodding his head, his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I… — John Knowles Nodding Head Copy Share Image
The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do… — John Knowles Alternative medicine Copy Share Image
My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to… — John Knowles Business Copy Share Image
What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it… — John Knowles Love Copy Share Image
“Sixteen is the key and crucial and natural age for a human being to be, and people of all other ages are… — John Knowles Sixteen Copy Share Image
