John Knowles Quotes

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There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.

John Knowles

Dream, Target, Harm

John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

John Knowles

Meaningful, World, Would Be

John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

John Knowles

War, Heart, Stupidity

John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

John Knowles

Evolve

John Knowles (1988). “A Separate Peace”, p.37, Dramatic Publishing

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We are all born equally far from the sun.

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Sun, Born

John Knowles (1983). “A stolen past”, Henry Holt & Co

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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.

John Knowles

Running, Thinking, Long

John Knowles (1969). “A separate peace”, Bantam Books, 1966

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What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

John Knowles

Love You, Mean, Winter

John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

John Knowles

Tree, Violence, Separate Peace

John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.

John Knowles

Moments, Separate Peace

John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

John Knowles

Summer, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.

John Knowles

Desire, Purpose, Firsts

"A Separate Peace" by John Knowles, (p. 14), 1959.

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So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.

John Knowles

Peace, Separate Peace

"A Separate Peace".

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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. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

John Knowles

Fighting, Land, Bridges

John Knowles (1983). “A stolen past”, Henry Holt & Co

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There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

John Knowles

Acceptance, People, Understanding

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I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

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Parent, Sometimes, Accepting

John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

John Knowles

Teenager, Today, Accepting

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The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

John Knowles

Medicine, People, Next

"God’s Hybrid" by Dr. Jeffrey McCombs, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2008.

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Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

John Knowles

Reflection, Confusion, World

John Knowles (1996). “A Separate Peace”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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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 I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

John Knowles

Mean, Years, Important

John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

John Knowles

Sarcasm, Weak, Protest

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But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.

John Knowles

Separate Peace, Used, Wanted

John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

John Knowles

Peace, Children, Men

John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

John Knowles

Morning, Sleep, Night

John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over. People will get their respect for you from that-partly from that, don't get me wrong-but if you can say that you were up front where there was some real shooting going on, then that will mean a whole lot to you in years to come.

John Knowles

Memories, Real, War

John Knowles (1997). “A Separate Peace”, Holt McDougal

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But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

John Knowles

Feelings, Levels, Separate Peace

John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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Born: September 16, 1926
Died: November 29, 2001
Occupation: Novelist
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