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Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon Quotes: The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape.
         

The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape.


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