John Knowles Quotes

• You never waste your time. That’s why I have to do it for you.

  John Knowles

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• Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn’t just the ’40s, either. In the ’30s and in the ’50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.

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• 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.

  John Knowles

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

  John Knowles

• The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

  John Knowles

• My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

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• Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow’s homework.

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• Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

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• Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

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John Knowles (9)

Birth:	16th September, 1926
Death:	29th November, 2001
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

John Knowles was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, USA. He was an American novelist. He graduated from Yale University in 1949. Early in his career, he wrote for the Hartford Courant and was assistant editor for Holiday magazine. During the 1960s he was a writer in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at Princeton University, and in the 1990s he taught creative writing at Florida Atlantic University. He wrote several novels include: A Separate Peace (Won- William Faulkner Foundation Award in 1961, and National Book Award finalist in 1961), Morning in Antibes, Indian Summer, The Paragon, Spreading Fires, A Vein of Riches, and Peace Breaks Out.

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