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

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Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.292, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Daniel Keyes

“There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.”
“Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.”
“For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult in the long run.”

Source : "The Tunisia Twitter Revolution That Wasn’t". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 27, 2011.
“Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.”
“Is your integrity at the level of the thing you are praying for?”
“Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.”
“Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.”
“Putting 100 percent into your life, your work, or sport, doesn't give you the right to expect success at whatever you are trying to do - it just provides the opportunity.”

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