11 quotes
Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today, filled with nostalgia and fear of the future.
The Dream Master (1966)
Any human experience should be describable and interpretable—by a good enough writer.
The Dream Master (1966)
Her thirtieth birthday, like a huge black cloud, filled an April but four months distant.
The Dream Master (1966)
But while pleasure and pain are rooted in biology, they are conditioned by society: thus are values to be derived.
The Dream Master (1966)
“Do you think they’re really people?”
“Naw, they’re too good.”
The Dream Master (1966)
The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.
The Dream Master (1966)
“I intend to do that after dinner,” he stated, “because I believe in the ritualistic value of rescue-motions. They shall be made.”
The Dream Master (1966)
“What did you say to her?”
“I gave her a clinic referral card that said, ‘Diagnosis: Bitch. Prescription: Drug therapy and a tight gag.’”
The Dream Master (1966)
An intense study of mental illness is often quite revealing as to the nature of the stresses in the society where the illness was made. If anxiety patterns fall into special groups and classes, then something of the discontent of society can be learned from them.
The Dream Master (1966)
You don’t know what it’s like to be cut off from a whole area of stimuli! To know that a Mongoloid idiot can experience something you can never know—and that he cannot appreciate it because, like you, he was condemned before birth in a court of biological happenstance, in a place where there is no justice—only fortuity, pure and simple.
The Dream Master (1966)
“Statistics aren’t the same thing as destiny, Bennie. Everybody makes his own.”
“Statistics or destiny?”
“Both, I guess.”
“I think that if something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.”
“I don’t. I happen to think that the human will, backed by a sane mind can exercise some measure of control over events. If I didn’t think so, I wouldn’t be in the racket I’m in.”
The Dream Master (1966)