the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse
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Must like the rest of us on the surface, he had an underlying obliging and considerate strain which barred him from being a really important member of the class. You had to be rude at least sometimes and edgy often to be credited with "personality," and without that accolade no one at Devon could be anyone. No one, with the exception of course of Phineas.
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As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.
John KnowlesTags: a-separate-peace gene john-knowles phineas tree
Someone knocked me down; I pushed Brinker over a small slope; someone was trying to tackle me from behind. Everywhere there was the smell of vitality in clothes, the vital something in wool and flannel and corduroy which spring releases. I had forgotten that this existed, this smell which instead of the first robin, or the first bud or leaf, means to me that spring has come. I had always welcomed vitality and energy and warmth radiating from thick and sturdy winter clothes. It made me happy, but I kept wondering about next spring, about whether khaki, or suntans or whatever the uniform of the season was, had this aura of promise in it. I felt fairly sure it didn't.
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There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.
John KnowlesIt 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 KnowlesI jounced the limb.
John KnowlesWhat 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 KnowlesAlways say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.
John KnowlesEveryone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.
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