Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"I pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be grateful for what I had."
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"I pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be grateful for what I had."
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches."
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up to my pores during the day, and at night - in the moments before I pass off into sleep - ideas explode into my head like fireworks."
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"I was afraid it would come to this, but I have no patience with her now. I'm jealous of every moment away from the work - impatient with any one who tries to steal my time."
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"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"
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"Other people had something I lacked something denied me. In my mental blindness, I had believed it was somehow connected with the ability to read and write, and I was sure that if I could get those skills I would have intelligence too. Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men. A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger."
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"Shut up!Leave him alone! He cant understand. He cant help what he is ... but for God's sake, have some respect! He's a human being!"
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men."--Charlie Gordan"
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"The more she talked that way, the worse I felt. She highlighted my awkwardness, my lack of knowledge about the right things to say and do. I was a blundering adolescent in her eyes, and she was trying to let me down easy."
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"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."
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTITY OF THE INCREASE."
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men. A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger."
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together."
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy. And now that I've found it, how can I give it up? Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have."
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"How many great men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?"
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and soon - very soon - it will burst into consciousness."
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"Algernon is so smart he has to solve a problem with a lock that changes every time he goes in to eat so he has to lern something new to get his food. That made me sad because if he coulnt lern he wouldnt be able to eat and he would be hungry."
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"I am just as far away from Alice with an I. Q. of 185 as I was when I had an I. Q. of 70. And this time we both know it."
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"Before, they had laughed at me, despising me for my ignorance and dullness; now, they hated me for my knowledge and understanding. Why? What in God's name did they want of me?"
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
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