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There was a breath of widening life in the morning air
something hard to describe
— John Knowles

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself. — John Knowles

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

Well, it's a useful room." "Yes, I guess it's useful, all right. — John Knowles

As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck. — John Knowles

His jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. I believe you. It's okay because I understand and I believe you. — John Knowles

The war was and is reality for me. — John Knowles

The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life. — John Knowles

Everything has to evolve or else it perishes. — John Knowles

Sarcasm is the protest of the weak. — John Knowles

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves. — John Knowles

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

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

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding — John Knowles

Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell 'em. — John Knowles

Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak. — John Knowles

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

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward. — John Knowles

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. — John Knowles

The first person who says anything unpleasant will get a swift kick in the ass. — John Knowles

Is he using terror to keep away boredom? Does he have to try to destroy something? Even as a last resort, himself? — John Knowles

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence. — John Knowles

There are just tiny fragments of pleasure and luxury in the world, and there is something unpatriotic about enjoying them. — John Knowles

I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case. — John Knowles

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. — John Knowles

I did not stop to think that one wave is inevitably followed by another even larger and more powerful, when the tide is coming in. — John Knowles

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth. — John Knowles

...moved by his own sermon. — John Knowles

Finny never permitted himself to realize that when you won they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport. — John Knowles

Let us pray. We all slumped immediately and unthinkingly in to the awkward crouch in which God was addressed. — John Knowles

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence. — John Knowles

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. — John Knowles