John Knowles Quotes

John Knowles — American Novelist born on September 16, 1926, died on November 29, 2001

John Knowles was an American novelist best known for A Separate Peace. He died in 2001 at the age of 75... (wikipedia)

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

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

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.

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.

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

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