Daniel Keyes, Flowers For Algernon Quotes
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.
I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.
A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.
Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men."--Charlie Gordan
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.
ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTITY OF THE INCREASE.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.
I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.
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.