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“So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me. the value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't; it's Emperor's New Clothes gone global. If chimps used money and we didn't, we wouldn't admire it. We'd find it irrational and primitive. Delusional. And why gold? Chimps barter with meat. The value of meat is self-evident.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“...the world runs on the fuel of an endless, fathomless animal misery.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“The world runs,” Lowell said, “on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don’t mind what they don’t see. Make them look and they mind, but you’re the one they hate, because you’re the one that made them look.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“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

“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

“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Why am I always looking at life through a window?”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“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.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“The problem, dear professor, is that you wanted someone who could be made intelligent but still be kept in a cage and displayed when necessary to reap the honors you seek. The hitch is that I'm a person.”
― Daniel Keys, Flowers for Algernon

“language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“I passed your floor on the way up, and now I’m passing it on the way down, and I don’t think I’ll be taking this elevator again.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“The last time we were here,” I said, “I told you I liked you. I should have trusted myself to say I love you.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“What has happened to me? Why am I so alone in the world?”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“I am just as far away from Alice with an I.Q. of 185 as I was when I had an I.Q. of 70. And this time we both know it.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Before, they had laughed at me, despising me for my ignorance and dullness; now, they hated me for my knowledge and understanding. Why? What in God's name did they want of me?”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon