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John Knowles quotes

American Novelist September 16, 1926 – November 29, 2001

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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. John Knowles
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
Because 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
Gene, on the desire to be Finny: "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
John Knowles quote: "There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream."
There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream. John Knowles
Must like the rest of us on the surface, he had an underlying obliging and considerate strain which barred him from being a really important member of the class. You had to be rude at least sometimes and edgy often to be credited with "personality," and without that accolade no one at Devon could be anyone. No one, with the exception of course of Phineas. John Knowles
I did not stop to think that one wave is inevitably followed by another even larger and more powerful, when the tide is coming in. John Knowles
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
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
John Knowles quote: "Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they..."
Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell 'em. John Knowles
John Knowles quote: "Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to..."
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. 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. John Knowles
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
John Knowles quote: "I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town,..."
I saw on the pad not an operator's number from my home town, but one which seemed to interrupt the beating of my heart. John Knowles
John Knowles quote: "There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they..."
There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding John Knowles

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