Daniel Keyes cytaty

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“I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.”

Daniel Keyes książka Flowers for Algernon

“I’m like a man who’s been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.”

Daniel Keyes książka Flowers for Algernon

“The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?”

Daniel Keyes książka Flowers for Algernon

“I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.”

Daniel Keyes książka Flowers for Algernon

“I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself”

Daniel Keyes książka Flowers for Algernon

“Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.”

Daniel Keyes książka Flowers for Algernon

“So many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and learning are all wishful thinking.”

Daniel Keyes książka Flowers for Algernon

“We learn what something is not — and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.”

Daniel Keyes książka Flowers for Algernon

“The meaning of my total existence involves knowing the possibilities of my future as well as my past, where I'm going as well as where I've been.”

Daniel Keyes książka Flowers for Algernon

“As when men to keep from being swept overboard in the storm clutch at each other's hands to resist being torn apart, so our bodies fused a link in the human chain that kept us from being swept into nothing.”

Daniel Keyes książka Flowers for Algernon

“I've got to grow up. For me it means everything…”

Daniel Keyes książka Flowers for Algernon

“People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem — they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples.”

Daniel Keyes książka Flowers for Algernon

“The foolish thing was trying to solve the problem all by myself. But the deeper I get tangled up in this mass of dreams and memories the more I realize that emotional problems can't be solved as intellectual problems are.”

Daniel Keyes książka Flowers for Algernon

“How many great problems have gone unsolved because men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?”

Daniel Keyes książka Flowers for Algernon

“You don't know what it's like to have something happening inside you, that you can't see and can't control, and know it's all slipping through your fingers.”

Daniel Keyes książka Flowers for Algernon

“You can't have everything you want in one woman.”

Daniel Keyes książka Flowers for Algernon