"It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually……" — John Knowles

"It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature."

— John Knowles

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42 Quotes by John Knowles

John Knowles has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun.…
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood,…
Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.
It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the…
Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must…
I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid…
All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought…
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their…
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…
I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing,…

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More Affection Quotes

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Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way… — Richard Bach
The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when… — Michelle Bachelet
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or… — Lord Acton
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and… — Amelia Barr
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of… — Jane Addams
I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it… — Sarah Bernhardt
I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love. — George Best
I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people. — Bhumibol Adulyadej

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