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John Knowles war ein US-amerikanischer Autor. Bekannt wurde er für seinen Roman Ein anderer Frieden. Wikipedia

✵ 16. September 1926 – 29. November 2001

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“Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.”

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John Knowles buch A Separate Peace

Gene, on the war activities around Devon.
Quelle: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 89

“It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.”

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John Knowles buch A Separate Peace

Gene, on war.
Quelle: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 193

“Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over. People will get their respect for you from that-partly from that, don't get me wrong-but if you can say that you were up front where there was some real shooting going on, then that will mean a whole lot to you in years to come.”

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John Knowles buch A Separate Peace

Mr. Hadley on war.
Quelle: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 191

“He [Finny] had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he.”

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John Knowles buch A Separate Peace

Gene, on his weakness.
Quelle: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 59

“Now I see what racing skiing is all about. It's all right to miss seeing the trees and the countryside and all the other things when you've got to be in a hurry. And when you're in a war you've got to be in a hurry. Don't you? So I guess maybe racing skiers weren't ruining the sport after all. They were preparing it, if you see what I mean, for the future. Everything has to evolve or else it perishes... I'm almost glad this war came along. It's like a test, isn't it, and only the things and the people who've been evolving the right way survive.”

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John Knowles buch A Separate Peace

Leper, on the need to change.
Quelle: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 116-117

“Naturally I don't believe books and I don't believe teachers, but I do believe-it's important for me to believe you [Gene]. Christ, I've got to believe you, at least. I know you better than anybody.”

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John Knowles buch A Separate Peace

Finny, on his trust in Gene.
Quelle: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 163

“Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.”

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John Knowles buch A Separate Peace

Gene
Quelle: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 14

“I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.”

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John Knowles buch A Separate Peace

Gene, on the desire to be Finny.
Quelle: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 85

“All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.”

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John Knowles buch A Separate Peace

Gene, on the enemy.
Quelle: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 196

“He possessed an extra vigor, a heightened confidence in himself, a serene capacity for affection which saved him. Nothing as he was growing up at home, nothing at Devon, nothing even about the war had broken his harmonious and natural unity. So at last I had.”

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John Knowles buch A Separate Peace

Gene, on Finny's strength.
Quelle: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 194-195

“You had to be rude at least sometimes and edgy often to be credited with 'personality,' and without that accolade no one at Devon could be anyone. No one, with the exception of course of Phineas.”

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John Knowles buch A Separate Peace

Gene, on personality.
Quelle: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 124