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I've got to grow up. For me it means everything...
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Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.
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There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." —Charlie Gordan
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A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.
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Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." —Charlie Gordan
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I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.
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I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself
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People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.
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Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.
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Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.
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I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
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If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time.
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There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.
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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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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?
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Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.
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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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What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.
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People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem — they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples.
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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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Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.
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You don't know what it's like to have something happening inside you, that you can't see and can't control, and know it's all slipping through your fingers.
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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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And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.
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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.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
E. W. Howe
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Born:
August 9, 1927
Died:
June 15, 2014
(aged 86)
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