Цитаты из книги «One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest / Пролетая над гнездом кукушки. Книга для чтения на английском языке»

This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. And he endures, he goes on. He knows his place. He most certainly doesn’t challenge the wolf to combat. Now, would that be wise? Would it?”

You are strapped to a table, shaped, ironically, like a cross, with a crown of electric sparks in place of thorns

she’s a master at forcing the trembling libido out into the open

McMurphy, I don’t see how you can concentrate with Martini sitting there hallucinating a mile a minute.

My friend, I don’t recall anything about psychopaths being able to move mountains in addition to their other noteworthy assets.

Now, people, if we can get things rolling?

That’s the Shock Shop I was telling you about some time back, my friend, the EST, Electro-Shock Therapy. Those fortunate souls in there are being given a free trip to the moon.

They usually give you red capsules before Shock

Ah, zo,’[36] the first doctor says. ‘Ziz is exactly vot ve need for our patients – zee induced fit!’ His colleague agreed, of course. It was known that men coming out of an epileptic convulsion were inclined to be calmer and more peaceful for a time, and that violent cases completely out of contact were able to carry on rational conversations after a convulsion. No one knew why; they still don’t. But it was obvious that if a seizure could be induced in non-epileptics, great benefits might result. And here, before them, stood a man inducing seizures every so often with remarkable aplomb.”

We can even have a lobby in Washington,” Harding was saying, “an organization NAAIP[50]. Pressure groups. Big billboards along the highway showing a babbling schizophrenic running a wrecking machine, bold, red and green type: ‘Hire the Insane.’ We’ve got a rosy future, gentlemen.