"Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him."

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Source : John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

John Knowles

#Moments Quotes

“Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.”

Source : "Happy Hunting" by Tristram Stuart, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2006.
“At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.”
“Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you”

Source : Song: Do Everything, Album: Re:Creation, 2011
“I'm not going to let our fans down,”

Source : HC Rex Ryan Introductory Press Conference, Opening Remarks, www.buffalobills.com. January 14, 2015.
“Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with the implacable, paradox-ridden nature of knowledge and experience. These are deeply felt, deeply meditated poems guided by a sensibility highly attenuated to the physical world. In their openness to friendship and love and in their fearless directness, they remind me of the work of Larry Levis and Jon Anderson. Like Levis and Anderson, Otremba promises to be an influential and important voice for his generation.”
“If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.”

Source : 1977 My Mother, My Self, ch.1.
“I base the roles I choose depending on the characters. That's just how I'm gonna run my career. So if it's a good role I'm gonna take it whether it be fantasy, or whether it be realistic or fiction, anything.”
“I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe I should try prose. It was a real struggle to begin because, first of all, there were so many words on the page - it was terrifying... Beginning was awful.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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