Quotes from Daniel Keyes

Cada passo em frente era um cuidado. Em que ponto o chão cederia e me afundaria em ansiedade?

O problema real é que não há lugar pra ninguém em lugar algum

Inteligência e educação sem doses de afeto humano não valem droga nenhuma.

Ninguém realmente começa algo novo, sra. Nemur. Todo mundo constrói em cima das falhas de outros homens. Não existe nada original de verdade na ciência. A contribuição de cada homem à soma de conhecimento é o que conta.

Inteligência sem a habilidade de dar ou receber afeto leva a um colapso mental e moral, para neurose, e possivelmente até para psicose.

It's painful to think about that, but what we have, I suspect, is more than most people find in a lifetime.

Sigo dizendo de novo e de novo que tenho que fazer algo mas então me esqueço ou talvez seja só mais fácil não fazer o que digo que vou fazer

Three blind mice... three blind mice, See how they run, See how they runt They all run after the farmer's wife, She cut oft their tails with a carving knife, Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three... blind... mice?

It doesn't mean, she shrugged. It just is - like a poem.

Ele comete o mesmo erro que os outros quando olham para uma pessoa de mente débil e riem porque não entendem que existem sentimentos humanos envolvidos

I'm not concentrating on anything in particular, just reading a lot of fiction now - ... - everything I can get my hands on - feeding a hunger that can't be satisfied.

I'm like an animal who's been locked out of his nice, safe cage.

My father never mentioned Him-it was as if God was one of Rose's relatives he'd rather not get involved with.

InteligenÈ›a ,educaÈ›ia È™i cunoaÈ™terea au devenit niÈ™te idoli veneraÈ›i. Dar È™tiu bine c? toÈ›i aÈ›i pierdut din vedere un lucru: inteligenÈ›a È™i educaÈ›ia care f?r? sentimente omeneÈ™ti nu fac nici cât o ceap? degerat?. Nu m? înÈ›elegeÈ›i greÈ™it. InteligenÈ›a este unul dintre cele mai mari daruri ale omului. Dar de cele mai multe ori c?utarea cunoaÈ™terii exclude c?utarea dragostei.

A fost r?u c? Adam È™i Eva au mâncat din pomul cunoaÈ™terii. A fost r?u când au v?zut c? sunt goi È™i când au înv??at ce sunt poftele È™i ruÈ™inea. ?i au fost goniÈ›i din Paradis È™i s-au închis porÈ›ile dup? ei. Dac? nu s-ar fi întâmplat asta, nimeni n-ar mai trebui s? îmb?trânesc?, s? se îmboln?veasc? È™i s? moar?.

It doesn't matter what he thinks of himself. Sure he's egotistic, so what? It takes that kind of ego to make a man attempt a thing like this. I've seen enough of men like him to know that mixed in with that pompousness and self-assertion is a goddamned good measure of uncertainty and fear.

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 could learn everything — all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know if its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?

I dream of being alone on top of a mountain, surveying the land around me, greens and yellows--and the sun directly above, pressing my shadow into a tight ball around my legs. As the sun drops into the afternoon sky, the shadow undrapes itself and stretches out toward the horizon, long and thin, and far behind me...

Anyway I bet Im the first dumb person in the world who ever found out something importent for sience. I remember I did something but I dont remember what. So I gess its like I did it for all the dumb pepul like me.

You can't put up a building on a site until you destroy the old one, and the old Charlie can't be destroyed.

Agora entendo que um dos motivos importantes para ir à universidade e obter uma educação é aprender que as coisas em que você acreditou a vida toda não são verdade, e nada é o que parece ser

Sometimes I wonder: Do I want to gel well? Is all this fear, all this shit I'm going through now worth it? Or should I bury myself back here in the brain and forget about it?" "What's your answer?" "I don't know.

I didn't know what to tell her.I wished I could say that like the House of Atreus or Cadmus we were suffering for the sinesof our forefathers, or fulfilling an ancient Greek oracle.But I had no answer for her, or for myself.

I don't know why I resented it so intensely to have them think of me as something newly minted in their private treasury, but it was-I am certain-echoes of that idea that had been sounding in the chambers of my mind from the time we had arrived in Chicago. I wanted to get up and show everyone what a fool he was, to shout at him: I'm a human being, a person - with parents and memories and a history - and I was before you ever wheeled me into that operating room!