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John Knowles
 
Date of birth: 16 September 1926
Date of death: 29 November 2001
Country Of Origin: America
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" As a kid from a border state, I found the New Hampshire winter breathtakingly cold - for a while I didn't think I could breathe there at all - but I survived to return for the summer session of 1943. "

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" Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school. "

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" Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework. "

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" My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education. "

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" Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves. "

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" The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward. "

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" The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life. "

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" There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity. "

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" We really did have a club whose members jumped from the branch of a very high tree into the river as initiation. "

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" Well, you know, there was the most enormous youth rebellion during the '30s. There was the Peace Pledge Union, which supposedly involved the cream of British youth. They thought wars were ridiculous and said just what everybody says today. They said they would not fight in any war. "

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" Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out. "

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