Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence. — John Knowles Endure 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
There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding — John Knowles Acceptance 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 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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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 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
“You never waste your time. That's why I have to do it for you.” — John Knowles Finny 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
“When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.” — John Knowles Love Copy Share Image
Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves. — John Knowles Accept Copy Share Image
“The first person who says anything unpleasant will get a swift kick in the ass. ” — John Knowles First person Copy Share Image
So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all. — John Knowles Change Copy Share Image
“Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell… — John Knowles Adolescence Copy Share Image
“He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been… — John Knowles Jealous Copy Share Image
“Because, unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like, I have not been able to identify its presence.” — John Knowles Fear Copy Share Image
I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents. — John Knowles Accepting Copy Share Image
It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature. — John Knowles Affection Copy Share Image
It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral… — John Knowles Dream Copy Share Image
“Je ne give a damn pas about le français, Les filles en France ne wear pas les pantelons” — John Knowles Humor 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
“Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic and entirely… — John Knowles Youth Copy Share Image
Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is… — John Knowles Born Copy Share Image
Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered.… — John Knowles Eight Copy Share Image
