John Knowles Short Quotes

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There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.

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Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.

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Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

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Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside 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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I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend's shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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Naturally I don't believe books and I don't believe teachers, but I do believe-it's important for me to believe you [Gene]. Christ, I've got to believe you, at least. I know you better than anybody.

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