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John Knowles quotes about world

American Novelist September 16, 1926 – November 29, 2001

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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. John Knowles
What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me. John Knowles
It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this. 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
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: "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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