Над кукушкиным гнездом (Кен Кизи) книга, цитаты, стр. 4

Если не остерегаться, люди тебя оседлают. Будешь делать то, что им надо, или же, наоборот, станешь упрямым как осел и будешь делать все им назло.

So for forty years he was able to live, if not right in the world of men, at least on the edge of it.

Which one of you claims to be the craziest? Which one is the biggest loony? It's my first day, and what I like to do is make a good impression straight off on the right man.

Nobody's gonna convince me I can't do something till I try it.

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

He got no hair on his face and none on his head to speak of; it looks like he glued some on once but it kept slipping off and getting in his cuffs and his shirt pocket and down his collar. Maybe that's why he keeps his collar so tight, to keep the little pieces of hair from falling down in there. Maybe that's why he laughs so much, because he isn't able to keep all the pieces out.

Bring these old sins into the open where they can be washed by the sight of all.

The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin' at it, see, till they rip the chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers. But usually a couple of the flock gets spotted in the fracas, then it's their turn. And a few more gets spots and gets pecked to death, and more and more. Oh, a peckin' party can wipe out the whole flock in a matter of a few hours, buddy, I seen it. A mighty awesome sight.

The black boys stoke the sucking pink mouths of the Vegetables a shade too fast for swallowing, and the Mechanical Soft squeezes out down their little knobs of chins onto the greens. The black boys cuss the Vegetables and ream the mouths bigger with a twisting motion of the spoon, like coring a rotten apple: «This ol' fart Blastic, he's comin' to pieces befo' my very eyes. I can't tell no more if I'm feeding him bacon puree or chunks of his own fuckin' tongue.»

That's a good rule for a smart gambler: look the game over awhile before you draw yourself a hand.

He'll still get up from time to time and wag his head and let us know how tired he is, but it's not a complaint or excuse or warning any more — he's finished with that; it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm bell rusted silent, an old, worthless clock that just keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.

У меня странное чувство, будто солнце светит на этих троих ярче прежнего. Все остальное выглядит как обычно — куры возятся в траве на крышах глиняных домов, кузнечики прыгают с куста на куст, детишки полынными метелками сгоняют мух с вяленой рыбы, и они поднимаются черными облаками, — все, как обыкновенно в летний день. Кроме солнца, а оно светит на трех приезжих в сто раз ярче, и я вижу Швы, где они составлены. И почти вижу внутри у них аппарат, который принимает мои слова, пробует засунуть их туда и сюда, поворачивает так и этак, а когда не находит для них удобного готового места, отбрасывает, будто их и не говорили.

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