21 ordspråk av John Knowles
John Knowles
 An abscess on his leg developed and he was in so much pain. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I think it is probably going to cost people their lives. |
| I'm leery about trying to prohibit them at the current location. |
| If we could get some grant money, it would ease the burden on the taxpayers of Philipsburg, |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward. |
| 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. |
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