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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. - John Knowles Quotes

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.

Age And Aging American Novelist

Well, you know, there was the most enormous youth rebellion during the '30s. There was the Peace Pledge Union, which supposedly involved the cream of British youth. They thought wars were ridiculous and said just what everybody says today. They said they would not fight in any war. - John Knowles Quotes

Well, you know, there was the most enormous youth rebellion during the '30s. There was the Peace Pledge Union, which supposedly involved the cream of British youth. They thought wars were ridiculous and said just what everybody says today. They said they would not fight in any war.

Peace

As a kid from a border state, I found the New Hampshire winter breathtakingly cold - for a while I didn't think I could breathe there at all - but I survived to return for the summer session of 1943. - John Knowles Quotes

As a kid from a border state, I found the New Hampshire winter breathtakingly cold - for a while I didn't think I could breathe there at all - but I survived to return for the summer session of 1943.

In high school football, things happen. For them, I'm sure it was a big disappointment. For us, we got a first down in that situation and it helped us. We felt good coming out of halftime and knew that if we stayed with the game plan, the kids would come up with the big plays. - John Knowles Quotes

In high school football, things happen. For them, I'm sure it was a big disappointment. For us, we got a first down in that situation and it helped us. We felt good coming out of halftime and knew that if we stayed with the game plan, the kids would come up with the big plays.

Swimming isn't the most thrilling sport in the world, far from it; it's a damn bore most of the time, but it does make you healthy and gives you a good body. I finished first as the anchor man in the final, decisive relay against Andover, to become an athletic mini-hero for about 15 minutes. - John Knowles Quotes

Swimming isn't the most thrilling sport in the world, far from it; it's a damn bore most of the time, but it does make you healthy and gives you a good body. I finished first as the anchor man in the final, decisive relay against Andover, to become an athletic mini-hero for about 15 minutes.

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

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

American Novelist

We really did have a club whose members jumped from the branch of a very high tree into the river as initiation. - John Knowles Quotes

We really did have a club whose members jumped from the branch of a very high tree into the river as initiation.

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. - John Knowles Quotes

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.

American Novelist

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. - John Knowles Quotes

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.

American Novelist People

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

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

American Novelist Teaching

The novel has one peculiarity for a school novel: It never attacks the place; it isn't an expose; it doesn't show sadistic masters or depraved students, or use any of the other school-novel sensationalistic cliches. That's because I didn't experience things like that there. - John Knowles Quotes

The novel has one peculiarity for a school novel: It never attacks the place; it isn't an expose; it doesn't show sadistic masters or depraved students, or use any of the other school-novel sensationalistic cliches. That's because I didn't experience things like that there.

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

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

American Novelist

An abscess on his leg developed and he was in so much pain. - John Knowles Quotes

An abscess on his leg developed and he was in so much pain.

Pain

If we could get some grant money, it would ease the burden on the taxpayers of Philipsburg, - John Knowles Quotes

If we could get some grant money, it would ease the burden on the taxpayers of Philipsburg,

Money

I like the way we came back, ... Give credit to Shippensburg, those kids played hard. Their secondary was great; I thought we'd be able to throw more on them. - John Knowles Quotes

I like the way we came back, ... Give credit to Shippensburg, those kids played hard. Their secondary was great; I thought we'd be able to throw more on them.

Kids

I like the way we came back. Give credit to Shippensburg, those kids played hard. Their secondary was great; I thought we'd be able to throw more on them. - John Knowles Quotes

I like the way we came back. Give credit to Shippensburg, those kids played hard. Their secondary was great; I thought we'd be able to throw more on them.

Kids

I'm leery about trying to prohibit them at the current location. - John Knowles Quotes

I'm leery about trying to prohibit them at the current location.

I think it is probably going to cost people their lives. - John Knowles Quotes

I think it is probably going to cost people their lives.

There's been a lot of misinformation out there. I think they're leaving a lot of people high and dry at very short notice. - John Knowles Quotes

There's been a lot of misinformation out there. I think they're leaving a lot of people high and dry at very short notice.

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. - John Knowles Quotes

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.

American Novelist

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 Quotes

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.

American Novelist

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