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
tree violence endure
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.
parent sometimes accepting
I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.
summer exeter
The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.
sarcasm weak protest
Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.
numbers people feelings
There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.
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.
tree violence separate-peace
Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.
enemy lines way
All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.
wind sun necks
As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.
evolve
Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.
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.
prayer night feet
Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.
fighting land bridges
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.
branch club high members river tree whose
We really did have a club whose members jumped from the branch of a very high tree into the river as initiation.