I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts about Adam lived and disconnected the electricity and boarded up all the doors and windows, so nothing could get out.
Obviously it was very unsightly. There were bound to be complaints from the neighboring thoughts. But I had no choice.


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All the barriers were gone. I had unwound the string she had given me, and found my way out of the l...
DANIEL KEYES
Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to ...
DANIEL KEYES
The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?
DANIEL KEYES
But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intel...
DANIEL KEYES
Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.
DANIEL KEYES
Holy smoke I reely pulled a Charlie Gordon that time.
DANIEL KEYES
The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being s...
DANIEL KEYES
I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and ...
DANIEL KEYES
You have to know with whom you're dealing. Check them out, check their references, get a bill of sal...
LYNNE KEYES
My point is to educate those who would have an interest in the field of autograph collection.
LYNNE KEYES
By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is ...
DANIEL KEYES
My father was in the paper recycling business back before they called it recycling.
DANIEL KEYES
I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.
DANIEL KEYES
I was hunting (for a hotel chain) which continually changes and upgrades its standards as the indust...
JOSEPH KEYES
It really means with a name like Days Inn we will have a much better chance of bringing in business ...
JOSEPH KEYES
The hotel is too big to fill it all with overnighters. We will lease out part of it.
JOSEPH KEYES
The building is solid; the (prior) management was bad. The problem with the building from the outsid...
JOSEPH KEYES
We expect to be open this Thursday.
JOSEPH KEYES
There are like six of us that play on the same select team. We've been playing together for a long t...
JEANA KEYES
We're doing really good. I expected us to come in here and beat everyone because we've been practici...
JEANA KEYES
I want to stop time, freeze myself at this level and never let go of her.
DANIEL KEYES
The interesting thing is we've got a lot of returnees, but not a lot of them have had seasons at the...
PAUL KEYES
So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being...
DANIEL KEYES
It's time for courage to be restored -- not by leaders like G.W. Bush, but by people like you.
ALAN KEYES
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it mea...
MARIAN ANDERSON
Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fi...
MARIAN ANDERSON
Prayer begins where human capacity ends.
MARIAN ANDERSON
Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, b...
MARIAN ANDERSON
You have two bites at the local apple before you have to go to court,
MARIAN ANDERSON
None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the ...
MARIAN ANDERSON
Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair ...
MARIAN ANDERSON
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it...
MARIAN ANDERSON
This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.
MARIAN MOUNTAIN
Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.
MARIAN ANDERSON
Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.
MARIAN ERICKSON
The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courag...
MARIAN ANDERSON
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
MARIAN ANDERSON
When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.
MARIAN ANDERSON
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a ...
MARIAN ANDERSON
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it...
MARIAN ANDERSON
When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
MARIAN ANDERSON
I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out,...
MARIAN MCPARTLAND
It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask...
MARIAN BURROS
If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants...
MARIAN BURROS
The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covere...
MARIAN MCPARTLAND
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by i...
MARIAN ANDERSON