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From Quotes by John Knowles
- 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…
- 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…
- We are all born equally far from the sun.
- 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…
- It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.
- It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted…
- My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the…
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