John Knowles Quotes
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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
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Author Details:
Type:
Novelist Quotes
Category:
American Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
September 16, 1926
Date of Death:
November 29, 2001
Nationality:
American
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All John Knowles Quotations:
Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial...
Looking back, I think we were...
My father was in the coal...
Teenagers today are more free to...
The best teaching I ever experienced...
The summer of 1943 at Exeter...
There are simply more young people...
Young people in my generation were...
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