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John Knowles Quotes:

Ocupation: Novelist

Life: September 16, 1926 - November 29, 2001

Birthday: September 16

Death: November 29

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.

- John Knowles

topic: Peace, Men, Years, Separate Peace, Demotion

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