01UndatedEven a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.Daniel Keyes / quote ↗
02UndatedARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTITY OF THE INCREASE.Daniel Keyes / quote ↗
03UndatedThe world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape.Daniel Keyes / quote ↗
05UndatedThe more she talked that way, the worse I felt. She highlighted my awkwardness, my lack of knowledge about the right things to say and do. I was a blundering adolescent in her eyes, and she was trying to let me down easy.Daniel Keyes / quote ↗
06UndatedI 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!Daniel Keyes / quote ↗
08UndatedShut up!Leave him alone! He cant understand. He cant help what he is ... but for God's sake, have some respect! He's a human being!Daniel Keyes / quote ↗
09UndatedOther people had something I lacked something denied me. In my mental blindness, I had believed it was somehow connected with the ability to read and write, and I was sure that if I could get those skills I would have intelligence too.Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men. A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.Daniel Keyes / quote ↗
10UndatedIt's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don't remember it.Daniel Keyes / quote ↗
11UndatedThe answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourselfDaniel Keyes / quote ↗
12UndatedI was afraid it would come to this, but I have no patience with her now. I'm jealous of every moment away from the work - impatient with any one who tries to steal my time.Daniel Keyes / quote ↗
13UndatedEvery part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up to my pores during the day, and at night - in the moments before I pass off into sleep - ideas explode into my head like fireworks.Daniel Keyes / quote ↗
14UndatedWhat an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.Daniel Keyes / quote ↗
15UndatedOrdinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than they are, but you're a genius. You'll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step will reveal worlds you never even knew existed.Daniel Keyes / quote ↗
16UndatedI pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be grateful for what I had.Daniel Keyes / quote ↗
17UndatedI thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: 'What would happen if it were possible to increase a person's intelligence?'Daniel Keyes / quote ↗
