Quotes by John Knowles

John Knowles

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.

Morning

Night

Sleep

I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

Knows

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.

Meaningful

World

Would Be

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

Accepting

Parent

Sometimes

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.

Desire

Firsts

Purpose

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.

Hatred

School

War

It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.

Dream

Looks

Regret

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

Heart

Stupidity

War

It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.

Affection

Demeaning

Immature

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.

Hate

Joy

Morning

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Born

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Dad

Demeaning

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Dream

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Enemy

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Exeter

Faces

Father

Feelings

Feet

Fighting

Firsts

Force

Generations

Harm

Hate

Hatred

Heart

Immature

Important

Joy

Knows

Land

Letdowns

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Lines

Long

Looks

Love You

Mean

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Quotes by John Knowles

John Knowles

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.

I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

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.

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

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.

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.

It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.

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

It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.

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