John Knowles Quotes

• 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.

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  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

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  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.

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  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.

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  Correr, Pensar, Largo

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

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• Lo que quiero decir es que me encanta el invierno, y cuando realmente amas algo, entonces te devuelve el amor, de la forma que tenga que amar.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Reflection, Confusion, World

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

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• Mirando ahora hacia atrás, a través de quince años, podía ver con gran claridad el miedo en el que había vivido, lo que debía significar que en el intervalo había tenido éxito en una empresa muy importante: Debí haber logrado escapar.

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  Mean, Years, Important

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

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• El sarcasmo es la protesta de los débiles.

  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.

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  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.

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  Paz, Niños, Hombres

  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.

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  Mañana, Sueño, Noche

  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.

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  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.

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  Feelings, Levels, Separate Peace

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

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