"You have to do what you think is……" — John Knowles
"You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment."
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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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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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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
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As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of…
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Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the…
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He…
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