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John Knowles Quotes about War

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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

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

John Knowles
War, Heart, Stupidity
John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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.

John Knowles
Memories, Real, War
John Knowles (1997). “A Separate Peace”, Holt McDougal

I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.

John Knowles
War, School, Hatred
John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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