Daniel Keyes quotes - page 2

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say? (Daniel Keyes)
Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan.
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Punctuation, is? fun!
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Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.
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The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?
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So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.
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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.
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So many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and learning are all wishful thinking.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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.
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Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing.
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That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.
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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 else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.
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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 to the sum of knowledge is what counts.
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Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.
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P. S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.
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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.
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It's amazing the way things, apparently disconnected, hang together.
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Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. (Daniel Keyes)
I am not only a thing, but also a way of being.
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You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do.
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Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love.
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My most absorbing interests at the present time are etymologies of ancient languages, the newer works on the calculus of variations, and Hindu history. It's amazing the way things, apparently disconnected, hang together.
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