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He [Finny] had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he.
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I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.
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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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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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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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John Knowles
Born:
September 16, 1926
Died:
November 29, 2001
(aged 75)
Bio:
John Knowles was an American novelist best known for A Separate Peace. He died in 2001 at the age of 75.
Known for:
A Separate Peace (1959)
Peace Breaks Out (1981)
The Life And Writings Of Henry Fuseli
The Paragon
A stolen past
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