"All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at……" — John Knowles
"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, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy."
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John Knowles
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42 Quotes by John Knowles
John Knowles has 42 quotes on this site.
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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.…
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This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood,…
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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…
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Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must…
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I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid…
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Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their…
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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…
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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,…
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
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