John Knowles Quotes
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Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
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Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of…
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This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later…
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Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.
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It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his…
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Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval…
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I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around…
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All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier,…
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Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him,…
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We are all born equally far from the sun.
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Gene, on the desire to be Finny: "I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must…
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It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.
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I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself…
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So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by…
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Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.
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Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.
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the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse
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As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.
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There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.
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It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the…
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