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Daniel Keyes

Datum narození: 9. srpen 1927
Datum úmrtí: 15. červen 2014

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Daniel Keyes byl americký spisovatel.

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Citáty Daniel Keyes

„Dítě možná neví, jak se nakrmit anebo ani jak jíst, ale přesto cítí hlad.“

— Daniel Keyes

O hladu

„„Je jako ostatní děti.
Je to hodný chlapec."“

— Daniel Keyes, kniha Růže pro Algernon

O dětech

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„Pořád si říkám zase a zase že bych měl něco dělat, ale pak zapomeu anebo možná je to jenom snadnější nedělat to, co říkám, že bych měl dělat.“

— Daniel Keyes

„Inteligence je rozhodně jedním z největších darů. Ale příliš často hledání pravdy vytlačí hledání lásky...“

— Daniel Keyes

O hledání, o pravdě, o lásce, o nerozhodnosti,

„Jedu teď dolů po pohyblivých schodech. Když budu jenom stát, dojedu až dolů, ale když začnu běžet, třeba aspoň vydržím na jednom místě. Důležité je pořád upalovat nahoru, ať se děje, co se děje.“

— Daniel Keyes

„How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.“

— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

„I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.“

— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

„Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.“

— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

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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.“

— Daniel Keyes
Context: Don't misunderstand me," I said. "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.

„Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing.“

— Daniel Keyes
Context: Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

„I am not only a thing, but also a way of being“

— Daniel Keyes
Context: I am not only a thing, but also a way of being — one of many ways — and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.

„It's amazing the way things, apparently disconnected, hang together.“

— Daniel Keyes
Context: 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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„Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis.“

„You've got to find the answer inside you — feel the right thing to do.“

— Daniel Keyes
Context: The 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.