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he kept telling me to rilax and that gets me skared because it always means its gonna hert.
dont see how they will know what is going on in my mind by looking at these reports.
I read them over and over a lot of times to see what I rote and I dont no whats going on in my mind so how are they going to.
“The more intelligent you become the more problems you’ll have,
Your intellectual growth is going to outstrip your emotional growth.
Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you’ve believed in all your life aren’t true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.
“Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.
This kind of picture is a lie. Things are forced to fit because the writer or the director or somebody wanted something in that didn’t belong. And it doesn’t feel right.”
Is that my worry?
What’s right? Ironic that all my intelligence doesn’t help me solve a problem like this.
Something inside is burning me up, and all I know is it makes me think of you.
I’m in the middle of a page and I see your face on it—not blurred like those in my past, but clear and alive.
I touch the page and your face is gone and I want to tear the book apa...
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language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway.
the best of them have been smug and patronizing—using me to make themselves superior and secure in their own limitations.
Anyone can feel intelligent beside a moron.”
How do you know what I feel? You take liberties with other people’s minds. You can’t tell how I feel or what I feel or why I feel.”
he’s just an ordinary man trying to do a great man’s work, while the great men are all busy making bombs.”
“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 of its existence, and to unders...
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is possible that both the increased intelligence and the erratic behavior at this level were created by the original surgery, instead of one being a function of the other.
“You’re a nut!”
“Naturally!”
“I was wondering when you...
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How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man born with low intelligence.
A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat,
yet it knows hunger.
It’s not love—but she’s important to me.
I have never met anyone as open and trusting as Fay is. She’s what I need most of all right now. I’ve been starved for simple human contact.
this one reminds me of you
intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.”
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.
What did I say wrong? Did I say something wrong? I din’t mean to say anything that wasn’t right.”
I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
you or trys to take advantage you call me or Joe or Frank and we will set him strait. We all want
