Над кукушкиным гнездом (Кен Кизи) книга, цитаты, стр. 3

Pete had looked out first and seen all the delivery-room machinery waiting for him and somehow realized what he was being born into, and had grabbed on to everything handy in there to try to stave off being born.

If somebody'd of come in and took a look, men watching a blank TV, a fifty-year-old woman hollering and squealing at the back of their heads about discipline and order and recriminations, they'd of thought the whole bunch was crazy as loons.

And eventually we all got to lose. Nobody can help that.

Не желаешь оглохнуть — прикидывайся глухим.

Кто смеяться разучился, тот опору потерял.

If I'm bound to be a loony, then I'm bound to be a stompdown dadgum good one.

He's got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get loose and glide around in front of him free as two white birds until he notices them and traps them between his knees; it bothers him that he's got pretty hands.

She walked along shaking her head and saying, «Why, this is an outrage an outrage » at every bowl. McMurphy sidled right along beside her, winking down his nose and saying in answer, «No; that’s a toilet bowl a toilet bowl.»

— Друг мой, не надо оправдывать мои слабости. Это не соответствует вашему образу и не украшает моего.

Whoever comes in the door is usually somebody disappointing, but there's always a chance otherwise.

Не позволяйте боли заслонить комедию, так же как комедии — заслонить боль.

I'd think he was strong enough being his own self that he would never back down the way she was hoping he would. I'd think, maybe he truly is something extraordinary. He's what he is, that's it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, being what he is.

When she posted work assignments on the bulletin board, and he read that she'd given him latrine duty, he went to her office and knocked on that window of hers and personally thanked her for the honor, and told her he’d think of her every time he swabbed out a urinal.

Nobody complains about all the fog. I know why, now: as bad as it is, you can slip back in it and feel safe. That's what McMurphy can't understand, us wanting to be safe. He keeps trying to drag us out of the fog, out in the open where we'd be easy to get at.

A face handsome and brutal and waxy like a mask, wanting nothing. I’ve seen a million faces like it.

Shakes hands with everybody he comes to except Big George the water freak, who grins and shies back from that unsanitary hand, so McMurphy just salutes him and says to his own right hand as he walks away, «Hand, how do you suppose that old fellow knew all the evil you been into?»

Человека нельзя представить слабым, если его не видят.

Про рыбу одно знаю: что есть её лучше, чем чистить.

После этого он остепенился и посвятил себя карточным играм всех рангов.

And later, hiding in the latrine from the black boys, I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

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