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.
Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me. - John Knowles
Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.
- John Knowles
We are all born equally far from the sun. - John Knowles
We are all born equally far from the sun.
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 hu… - John Knowles
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 hu…
You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment. - John Knowles
You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.
What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love. - John Knowles
What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.
Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence. - John Knowles
Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. - John Knowles
Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.
Everything has to evolve or else it perishes. - John Knowles
Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.
I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me. - John Knowles
I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.
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