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A Separate Peace (1959)
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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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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
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John Knowles
Born:
September 16, 1926
Died:
November 29, 2001
(aged 75)
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