Daniel Keyes Quotes

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• Punctuation, is? fun!
• I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov…
• What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.
• How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or…
• The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one of…
• A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.
• Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. This kind of picture is…
• Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.
• Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I…
• And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him…
• I’m “exceptional”- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of “gifted” and “deprived” (which used to mean “bright” and “retarded”) and as soon…
• No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes…
• Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something…
• I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
• I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.
• I may not have all the time I thought I had...
• Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all…
• Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something…
• The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?
• Why am I always looking at life through a window?

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