It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something… — John Knowles 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 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 Copy Share Image
I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over. People… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
“You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
“So the war swept over like a wave at the seashore, gathering power and size as i bore on us, overwhelming in… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding — John Knowles 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 ignorant in… — John Knowles 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 my heart.” — John Knowles 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 ranged in… — John Knowles 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 among heroic… — John Knowles 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 them, meant… — John Knowles 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 me. I… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
