John Knowles Quotes
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Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.
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Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.
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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.
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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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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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Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.
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This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.
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There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.
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Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.
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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.
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As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.
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So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.
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Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.
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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.
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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.
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Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.
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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.
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It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.
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There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.
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Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
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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.
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We are all born equally far from the sun.
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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.
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Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.
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Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.
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The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.
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There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding
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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.
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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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the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse
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