Daniel Keyes Quotes

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• I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

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  Feels, Wanted, Knows

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• I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

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  Fear, Life Or Death, Ifs

  David Rogers, Daniel Keyes (1969). “Flowers for Algernon: One Act”, p.28, Dramatic Publishing

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• Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?

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  World, Able, Strange

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

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  Affection, Damn, Intelligence And Education

  Daniel Keyes (2012). “Flowers For Algernon”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

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  People, Giving, Affection

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.

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  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Daniel Keyes (2004). “Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.

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  Pain, Psychosis, Self

  "Flowers For Algernon". Book by Daniel Keyes, 2012.

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• Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

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  College, Important, Reason

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

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  Children, May, Hunger

  Bert Coules, Daniel Keyes (1993). “The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon”, p.67, Heinemann

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• The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one of many ways--and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.

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  Knowing, Mazes, Way

  Daniel Keyes (2012). “Flowers For Algernon”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time.

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  Smart, Ifs

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.

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  Thinking, People, Dumb

  Daniel Keyes (2004). “Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.

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  Hurt, People, Laughing

  Bert Coules, Daniel Keyes (1993). “The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon”, p.67, Heinemann

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• Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

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  Strange

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

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  Knowing, Able, Despise

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why am I always looking at life through a window?

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  Window

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• The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself

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  Children, Book, People

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

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  Fall, Leave Me Alone, Want

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.300, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Im like a man whos been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

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  Men, Trying, Half

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.

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  Backyards, Body, Cheese

  Bert Coules, Daniel Keyes (1993). “The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon”, p.71, Heinemann

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• I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself

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  Enough, My Time, Left

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.292, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I'm grateful I saw it even for a little bit.

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  Sorry, Smart, Grateful

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• Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.

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  Easy, Ifs

  Bert Coules, Daniel Keyes (1993). “The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon”, p.76, Heinemann

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• Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

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  Music, Book, Thinking

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• Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

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  Light, Darkness

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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