John Knowles
John Knowles
John Knowles was an American novelist best known for A Separate Peace. He died in 2001 at the age of 75...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 September 1926
CountryUnited States of America
moments separate-peace
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.
peace men years
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.
teenager today accepting
Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
prayer night might
Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.
running thinking long
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.
peace separate-peace
So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all.
love-you mean winter
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.
sarcasm weak protest
Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.
separate-peace used wanted
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.
medicine people next
The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.
feelings levels separate-peace
But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.
summer sarcastic sarcasm
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.
war heart stupidity
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
meaningful world would-be
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.