Daniel Keyes

Punctuation, is? fun!

— Daniel Keyes

“I hate that mouse”

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“language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway.”

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

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“the words carved above the cathedral of my childhood”

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Why am I always looking at life through a window?

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There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Charlie Gordan

— Daniel Keyes

“Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.”

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I may not have all the time I thought I had...

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“Me, a nothingness zombie in a nothingness box in a nothingness hell.”

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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…

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“the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes”

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

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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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“ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTITY OF THE INCREASE.”

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“I may soon be coming to Warren, tos pend the rest of my life with the others...waiting.”

— Daniel Keyes

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

— Daniel Keyes

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

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“Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have. I am in love with what I am doing, because…

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“Algernon is a pleasant companion. At mealtimes, he takes his place at the small gateleg table. He likes pretzels, and today he…

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“I hated her as I had never hated anyone before—with her easy answers and maternal fussing. I wanted to slap her face,…

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“And he has the teacher's fear of being surpassed by the student, the master's dread of having the disciple discredit his work.…

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“All the barriers were gone. I had unwound the string she had given me, and found my way out of the labyrinth…

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“I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—one of many ways—and knowing the paths I have followed and…

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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…

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“The problem, dear professor, is that you wanted someone who could be made intelligent but still be kept in a cage and…

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Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here…

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“I’ve got to work out the rule. If I can find that out, and if it adds even one jot of information…

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“The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from…

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“One of the things that confuses me is never really knowing when something comes up from my past, whether it really happened…

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“Slowly, as waves recede, my expanding spirit shrinks back into earthly dimensions -- not voluntarily, because I would prefer to lose myself,…

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“Am I a genius? I don't think so. Not yet anyway. As Burt would put it, mocking the euphemisms of educational jargon,…

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“The most important thing had always been what other people thought-appearances before herself or her family. And righteous about it. Time and…

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“But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great…

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“Who's to say my light is better than your darkness?”

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“The more intelligent you become the more problems you’ll have,”

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Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men." --Charlie Gordan

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“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”

— Daniel Keyes

“I will never know. Whatever the truth is, I must not hate Rose”

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The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?

— Daniel Keyes