"I never killed anybody and I never developed……" — John Knowles
"I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there."
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42 Quotes by John Knowles
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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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All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought…
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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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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
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