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... experimental failure, the disproving of a theory, was as important to the advancement of learning as a success would be. By Daniel Keyes Experimental Failure Theory Disproving Important

This was the way we loved, until the night became a silent day. And as I lay there with her I could see how important physical love was, how necessary it was for us to be in each other's arms, giving and taking. The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other - child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway toward the goal-box of solitary death.But this was the counterweight, the act of binding and holding. As when men to keep from being swept overboard in the storm clutch at each other's hands to resist being torn apart, so our bodies fused a link in the human chain that kept us from being swept into nothing. By Daniel Keyes Loved Day Night Silent Friend

Algernon is a pleasant companion. At mealtimes, he takes his place at the small gateleg table. He likes pretzels, and today he took a sip of beer while we watched the ballgame on TV. I think he rooted for the Yankees. By Daniel Keyes Algernon Companion Pleasant Yankees Mealtimes

If you ever reed this Miss Kinnian dont be sorry for me. Im glad I got a second chanse in life like you said to be smart because I lerned alot of things that I never even new were in this werld and Im grateful I saw it all even for a littel bit. And Im glad I found out all about my family and me. It was like I never had a family til I remembird about them and saw them and now I know I had a family and I was a person just like evryone. By Daniel Keyes Miss Kinnian Family Glad Reed

It's exciting to hear them talking about poetry and science and philosophy - about Shakespeare and Milton; Newton and Einstein and Freud; about Plato and Hegel and Kant, and all the other names that echo like great church bells in my mind. By Daniel Keyes Milton Newton Freud Kant Shakespeare

I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov or Watson, but he's doing something important and I respect his dedication - maybe even more because he's just an ordinary man trying to do a great man's work, while the great men are all busy making bombs. By Daniel Keyes Close Man Great Watson Freud

Today, I learned, the comma, this is, a, comma (,) a period, with, a tail, Miss Kinnian, says its, importent, because, it makes writing, better, she said, somebody, could lose, a lot, of money, if a comma, isnt in, the right, place, I got, some money, that I, saved from, my job, and what, the foundation, pays me, but not, much and, I dont, see how, a comma, keeps, you from, losing it, But, she says, everybody, uses commas, so Ill, use them, too,,,, April By Daniel Keyes Comma April Money Miss Kinnian

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. By Daniel Keyes Afraid Patience Work Impatient Time

And he has the teacher's fear of being surpassed by the student, the master's dread of having the disciple discredit his work. (Not that I am in any real sense Nemur's student or disciple as Burt is.) I guess Nemur's fear of being revealed as a man walking on stilts among giants is understandable. By Daniel Keyes Work Nemur Student Disciple Fear

It's paradoxical that an ordinary man like Nemur presumes to devote himself to making other people geniuses. He would like to be thought of as the discoverer of new laws of learning - the Einstein of psychology. And he has the teacher's fear of being surpassed by the student, the master's dread of having the disciple discredit his work. By Daniel Keyes Nemur Geniuses Paradoxical Ordinary Man

I want to stop time, freeze myself at this level and never let go of her. By Daniel Keyes Time Freeze Stop Level

For one moment I had a cold feeling he was watching. Over the arm of the couch, I caught a glimpse of his face staring back at me through the dark beyond the window - where just a few minutes earlier I had been crouching. A switch of perception, and I was out on the fire escape again, watching a man and a woman inside, making love on the couch. ... I thought to myself, go ahead, you poor bastard - watch. I don't give a damn anymore. By Daniel Keyes Couch Moment Cold Feeling Watching

Anyone who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees anyone whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den. By Daniel Keyes Light Eye Laugh Mind Soul

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. By Daniel Keyes Intelligence Gifts Greatest Search Human

April 26 - I know I shouldn't hang around the college when I'm through at the lab, but seeing the young men and women going back and forth carrying books and hearing them talk about all the things they're learning in their classes excites me. I wish I could sit and talk with them over coffee in the Campus Bowl Luncheonette when they get together to argue about books and politics and ideas. It's exciting to hear them talking about poetry and science and philosophy - about Shakespeare and Milton; Newton and Einstein and Freud; about Plato and Hegel and Kant, and all the other names that echo like great church bells in my mind. Sometimes I listen in on the conversations at the tables around me, and pretend I'm a college student, even though I'm a lot older than they are. I carry books around, and I've started to smoke a pipe. It's silly, but since I belong at the lab I feel as if I'm a part of the university. I hate to go home to that lonely room. By Daniel Keyes Books Talk April Hang Young

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. By Daniel Keyes Felt Talked Worse Awkwardness Eyes

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 By Daniel Keyes Books People Answer Found Solved

As soon as ... begins to mean anything to anyone they'll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression only as long as it doesn't mean anything to anybody. By Daniel Keyes Begins Change Idea Expression Long

I'm "exceptional"- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of "gifted" and "deprived" (which used to mean "bright" and "retarded") and as soon as "exceptional" begins to mean anything to anyone they'll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression as long as it doesn't mean anything to anybody. "Exceptional" refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I've been exceptional. By Daniel Keyes Exceptional Gifted Deprived Bright Retarded

She sighed as she looked around. Tell you what I don't like about a place so goddamned orderly like this. As an artist . . . it's the lines that get me. All the straight lines in the walls, on the floors, in the corners that turn into boxes - like coffins. The only way I can get rid of the boxes is to take a few drinks. Then all the lines get wavy and wiggly, and I feel a lot better about the whole world. When things are all straight and lined up this way I get morbid. Ugh! If I lived here I would have to stay drunk all the time. By Daniel Keyes Lines Sighed Looked Boxes Straight

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. By Daniel Keyes Worse Happy Wanted Feel

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. By Daniel Keyes True Understand Important Reasons College

Seeing Charlie huddled beneath the covers I wish I could give him comfort, explain to him that he has done nothing wrong, that is beyond him to change his mother's attitude back to what it was before his sister came. There on the bed, Charlie did not understand what they were saying, but now it hurts. If I could reach out into the past of my memories, I would make her see how much she was hurting me. By Daniel Keyes Charlie Comfort Explain Wrong Huddled

I started out the evening with every intention of being pleasant and making friends. But these days I have trouble getting through to people. I don't know if it's me or them, but any attempt at conversation usually fades away in a minute or two, and the barriers go up. Is it because they are afraid of me? Or is it that deep down they don't care and I feel the same about them? By Daniel Keyes Friends Started Evening Intention Pleasant

The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other - child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway towards the goal-box of solitary death. By Daniel Keyes Friend Exploding Hurtling Space Eternally

Tell you what I don't like about a place so goddamned orderly like this. As an artist ... it's the lines that get me. All the straight lines in the walls, on the floors, in the corners that turn into boxes - like coffins. The only way I can get rid of the boxes is to take a few drinks. Then all the lines get wavy and wiggly, and I feel a lot better about the whole world. When things are all straight and lined up this way I get morbid. By Daniel Keyes Lines Place Goddamned Orderly Boxes

Door's open!" she shouted. She was in her underwear, lying on the floor, arms outstretched and legs up against the couch. She tilted her head back and looked at me upside down. "Charlie, darling! Why are you standing on your head? By Daniel Keyes Door Open Shouted Charlie Head

If I didn't understand what was happening at the time, he says, then it doesn't matter. I'm no more to blame than the knife is to blame in a stabbing, or the car in a collision. "But I'm not an inanimate object," I argued. "I'm a person."He looked confused for a moment and then laughed. "Of course, Charlie. But I wasn't referring to now. I meant before the operation."Smug, pompous - I felt like hitting him too. "I was a person before the operation. In case you forgot - ""Yes, of course, Charlie. Don't misunderstand. But it was different ... " And then he remembered that he had to check some charts in the lab. By Daniel Keyes Charlie Time Matter Blame Understand

The most important thing had always been what other people thought-appearances before herself or her family. And righteous about it. Time and again Matt had insisted that what others thought about you wasn't the only thing in life. But it did no good. Norma had to dress well; the house had to have fine furniture; Charlie had to be kept inside so that other people wouldn't know anything was wrong. By Daniel Keyes Family Important Thoughtappearances Thing People

I was on a down escalator now. If I stood still I'd go all the way to the bottom, but if I started to run up maybe I could at least stay in the same place. The important thing was to keep moving upward no matter what happened. By Daniel Keyes Escalator Bottom Place Stood Started

Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all fixed up better than ever. Test me. Ask me questions. I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I'm a mathematical whiz, and I'm writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I'm gone. By Daniel Keyes Charlie Books Son Wrote Test

Pushing too hard will only make things freeze up. How many great problems have gone unsolved because 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? By Daniel Keyes Pushing Hard Make Things Freeze

Remembering how my mother looked before she gave birth to my sister is frightening. But even more frightening is the feeling that I wanted them to catch me and beat me. Why did I want to be punished? Shadows out of the past clutch at my legs and drag me down. I open my mouth to scream, but I am voiceless. My hands are trembling, I feel cold, and there is a distant humming in my ears. By Daniel Keyes Remembering Frightening Mother Looked Gave

How can I make him understand that he did not create me?He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved. By Daniel Keyes Involved Understand Create Mistake Feebleminded

He wished me luk. I hope I have luk. I got my rabits foot and my luky penny and my horshoe. Dr Strauss said dont be so superstishus Charlie. This is sience. I dont know what sience is but they all keep saying it so maybe its something that helps you have good luk. By Daniel Keyes Luk Wished Charlie Dont Sience

No, you don't understand because it isn't happening to you, and no one can understand but me. I don't blame you. You've got your job to do, and your Ph.D. to get, and-oh, yes don't tell me, I know you're in this largely out of love of humanity, but you've got your life to live and we don't happen to belong on the same level. I passed your floor on the way up, nad now I'm passing it on the way down, and I don't think I'll be taking this elevator again. So let's just say good-bye here and now. By Daniel Keyes Understand Happening Andoh Blame Humanity

My anger was an exciting feeling, and I didn't give it up easily. I was ready to fight. By Daniel Keyes Feeling Easily Anger Exciting Give

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. By Daniel Keyes Feel World Bit Glad Chance

what's wrong with a person wanting to be more intelligent, to acquire knowledge, and understand himself and the world?" "If you'd read your Bible, Charlie, you'd know that it's not meant for man to know more than was given to him to know by the Lord By Daniel Keyes Intelligent Knowledge World Wrong Person

had reached a new level, and anger and suspicion were my first reactions to the world around me. Burt's By Daniel Keyes Level Burt Reached Anger Suspicion

A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger. By Daniel Keyes Eat Hunger Child Feed

The feeling of cold grayness was everywhere around me-a sense of resignation. There had been no talk of rehabilitation, of cure, of someday sending these people out into the world again. No one had spoken of hope. The feeling was of living death-or worse, of never having been fully alive and knowing. Souls withered from the beginning, and doomed to stare into the time and space of every day. By Daniel Keyes Resignation Cold Grayness Mea Sense

I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night - in the moments before I pass off into sleep - ideas explode into my head like fireworks. There is no greater joy than the burst of solution to a problem. Incredible that anything could happen to take away this bubbling energy, the zest that fills everything I do. It's as if all the knowledge I've soaked in during the past months has coalesced and lifted me to a peak of light and understanding. This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy. By Daniel Keyes Existed Living Clarity Knew Peak

It's not love-but she's important to me. I find myself listening for herfootsteps down the hallway whenever she's been out. By Daniel Keyes Lovebut Important Find Listening Herfootsteps

The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of beingone of many waysand knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming. By Daniel Keyes Choose Maze Makes Path Paths

I don't know why I resented it so intensely to have them think of me as something newly minted in their private treasury, but it was-I am certain-echoes of that idea that had been sounding in the chambers of my mind from the time we had arrived in Chicago. I wanted to get up and show everyone what a fool he was, to shout at him: I'm a human being, a person - with parents and memories and a history - and I was before you ever wheeled me into that operating room! By Daniel Keyes Chicago Treasury Resented Intensely Newly

I hated her as I had never hated anyone before - with her easy answers and maternal fussing. I wanted to slap her face, to make her crawl, and then to hold her in my arms and kiss her. By Daniel Keyes Hated Fussing Easy Answers Maternal

But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligent and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn ... Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love ... Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. By Daniel Keyes Intelligence Learned Damned Thing Education

The depressing thing is that so many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and learning are all wishful thinking. By Daniel Keyes Memory Intelligence Thinking Depressing Thing

Downhill. Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me. But then I think of Charlie waiting at the window. His life is not mine to throw away. I've just burrowed it for a while, and now I'm being asked to return it. By Daniel Keyes Downhill Charlie Thoughts Suicide Stop

To control one's own destiny takes a mastermind. To execute the plans takes a fool. By Daniel Keyes Mastermind Control Destiny Fool Execute

Strauss again brought up my need to speak and wrtie simply and directly so that people will understand me. He reminds me that language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway. Ironic to find myself on the other side of the intellectual fence. By Daniel Keyes Strauss Brought Speak Wrtie Simply

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here. By Daniel Keyes Leave Falling

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. By Daniel Keyes God Answer Pray Accept Grateful

What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches. By Daniel Keyes Thing Deaf Mute Incredible Mentally

My confused feeling for her had been holding me back, and I had to clung to her out of my fear of being forced out on my own, and cut adrift. By Daniel Keyes Back Adrift Confused Feeling Holding

I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication. Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less-filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt. By Daniel Keyes Writtencommunication Linguistic Admire Structural Linguists

So even if I'm getting intelligent and learning a lot of new things, he thinks I'm still a boy about women. It's confusing, but I'm going to find out all about my life. By Daniel Keyes Things Women Intelligent Learning Lot

Alice knows everything about me, and accepts the fact that we can be together for only a short while. She has agreed to go away when I tell her to go. It's painful to think about that, but what we have, I suspect, is more than most people find in a lifetime. By Daniel Keyes Alice Accepts Fact Short Suspect

Why am I always looking at life through a window? By Daniel Keyes Window Life

ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTITY OF THE INCREASE. By Daniel Keyes Increase Intelligence Deteriorates Rate Time

The last time we were here," I said, "I told you I liked you. I should have trusted myself to say I love you. By Daniel Keyes Time Told Trusted Love

By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling ... But a world without feeling is a world without pain. By Daniel Keyes World Shutting Real Live Peacefully

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. By Daniel Keyes Man People Sensibilty Eyes Intelligence

But what they don't understand is that I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night-in the moments before I pass off to sleep-ideas explode into my head like fireworks. There is no greater joy than the burst of solution to a problem. By Daniel Keyes Existed Understand Living Peak Clarity

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. By Daniel Keyes Work Part Attuned Day Night

Somehow I've become separated emotionally from everyone and everything. And what I was really searching for out there in the dark streets - the last damned place I could ever find it - was a way to make myself a part of people again emotionally, while still retaining my freedom intellectually. I've got to grow up. For me it means everything. . . . By Daniel Keyes Emotionally Separated Streets Intellectually Searching

My studies are going well. The university library is my second home now. They've had to get me a private room because it takes me only a second to absorb the printed page, and curious students invariably gather around me as I flip through my books. By Daniel Keyes Studies Page Books University Library

Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it. By Daniel Keyes Happen Control

I may soon be coming to Warren, tos pend the rest of my life with the others ... waiting. By Daniel Keyes Warren Tos Waiting Coming Pend

And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: ' ... the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes. By Daniel Keyes Plato Flames Words Mock Shadows

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. By Daniel Keyes Eat Algernon Food Lern Smart

Who's to say that death is better than your darkness? By Daniel Keyes Darkness Death

The only question now is: How much can I hang on to? By Daniel Keyes Question Hang

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading. By Daniel Keyes Flowers Algernon Reading Love Fact

And other times there would be tenderness and holding-close liek a warm bath, and hands stroking my hair and brow, and the words carved about the cathedral of my childhood: 'He's like all the other children. He's a good boy. By Daniel Keyes Bath Brow Childhood Children Times

All the barriers were gone. I had unwound the string she had given me, and found my way out of the labyrinth to where she was waiting. I loved her with more than my body. By Daniel Keyes Barriers Waiting Body Unwound String

I may not have all the time I thought I had... By Daniel Keyes Time Thought

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn. By Daniel Keyes Intelligence Damn Education Tempered Human

Three blind mice ... three blind mice, See how they run, See how they runt They all run after the farmer's wife, She cut oft their tails with a carving knife, Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three ... blind ... mice? By Daniel Keyes Mice Blind Run Wife Knife

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. When I was retarded I had lots of By Daniel Keyes Intelligence Breakdown Neurosis Psychosis Ability

Language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway. By Daniel Keyes Language Pathway Barrier

I'm like a man who's been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up. By Daniel Keyes Life Man Halfasleep Find Woke

I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me. By Daniel Keyes Smart Pepul Lots Frends

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. By Daniel Keyes Distorted Shape World Past Time

There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin.Charlie Gordan By Daniel Keyes Open Gordan Doors Impatient Begincharlie

She was excited by the idea of having something dedicated to her, but I don't think she really liked it. Just goes to show that you can't have everything you want in one woman.One more argument for polygamy. By Daniel Keyes Excited Idea Dedicated Polygamy Show

Unlike Charlie, I was incapable of making friends or thinking about other people and their problems. I was interested in myself, and myself only. Fr one long moment in that mirror I had seen myself through Charlie's eyes - looked down at myself and saw what I had really become. And I was ashamed. By Daniel Keyes Charlie Unlike Problems Incapable Making

If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time. By Daniel Keyes Time Smart Lots Frends Talk

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? By Daniel Keyes Despising Dullness Understanding Laughed Ignorance

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts. By Daniel Keyes Mrs Nemur Starts Failures Science

I am afraid. Not of live, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if it had never been. By Daniel Keyes Afraid Live Death Nothingness Wasting

It doesn't matter what he thinks of himself. Sure he's egotistic, so what? It takes that kind of ego to make a man attempt a thing like this. I've seen enough of men like him to know that mixed in with that pompousness and self-assertion is a goddamned good measure of uncertainty and fear. By Daniel Keyes Matter Egotistic Fear Kind Ego

When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending as do many people I've discoveredto be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface. By Daniel Keyes Annoyed Admitted Found Pretending Hidden

But the deeper I get tangled up in this mass of dreams and memories the more I realize that emotional problems can't be solved as intellectual problems are. By Daniel Keyes Problems Deeper Tangled Mass Dreams

Holy smoke I reely pulled a Charlie Gordon that time. By Daniel Keyes Charlie Gordon Holy Time Smoke

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. By Daniel Keyes Alice Time

Results are often negative. We learn what something is not - and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do. By Daniel Keyes Results Negative Learn Important Positive

People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem - they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples. By Daniel Keyes People Problem Ripples Resent Shown

People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can. By Daniel Keyes People Funny Dumb Person Things

I dont no what sience is but they all keep saying it so maybe its someting that helps you have good luk. By Daniel Keyes Luk Dont Sience Someting Good

The problem, dear professor, is that you wanted someone who could be made intelligent but still be kept in a cage and displayed when necessary to reap the honors you seek. The hitch is that I'm a person. By Daniel Keyes Problem Dear Professor Seek Wanted

Slowly, as waves recede, my expanding spirit shrinks back into earthly dimensions not voluntarily, because I would prefer to lose myself, but I am pulled from below, back to myself, into myself, so that for just one moment I am on the couch again, fitting the fingers of my awareness into the glove of my flesh. And I know I can move this finger or wink that eye if I want to. But I don't want to move. I will not move! By Daniel Keyes Back Slowly Move Recede Voluntarily

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about. By Daniel Keyes God Books Music Things

That's the thing about human lifethere is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed. By Daniel Keyes Group Changed Thing Human Lifethere

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. By Daniel Keyes Love Beauty Truth Rolled Joy

Each day I learn more and more about myself, and the memories that began to ripples now wash over in high breaking waves ... By Daniel Keyes Waves Day Learn Memories Began

Punctuation, is? fun! By Daniel Keyes Punctuation Fun

They would always find excuses to slip away, afraid to reveal the narrowness of their knowledge. By Daniel Keyes Afraid Knowledge Find Excuses Slip

I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places. By Daniel Keyes Norma Weed Allowed Places Flowered

I didn't know what to tell her.I wished I could say that like the House of Atreus or Cadmus we were suffering for the sinesof our forefathers, or fulfilling an ancient Greek oracle.But I had no answer for her, or for myself. By Daniel Keyes House Atreus Cadmus Greek Forefathers

I realize now that my feeling for Alice had been moving backward against the current of my learning, from worship, to love, to fondness, to a feeling of gratitude and responsibility. By Daniel Keyes Alice Feeling Learning Worship Love

Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less - filling By Daniel Keyes Filling Case Men Devoting Lives

Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born. By Daniel Keyes Born Lived Thousand Normal Lives

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. By Daniel Keyes Ago Short Time Learned People

I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: 'What would happen if it were possible to increase a person's intelligence?' By Daniel Keyes Thought Love Education Driving Wedge

I dint know they had majers in collidge. I thot it was onley in the army. Anyway By Daniel Keyes Collidge Dint Majers Army Thot

Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than they are, but you're a genius. You'll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step will reveal worlds you never even knew existed. By Daniel Keyes Ordinary People Bit Genius Change

Dr Strauss said I had something that was very good. He said I had a good motor-vation. I never ever knew I had that. I felt proud when he said that not every body with an eye-q of 68 had that thing. I don't know what it is or where I got it but he said Algernon had it too. Algernons motor-vation is the cheese they put in his box. But it cant be that because I didnt eat any cheese last week. By Daniel Keyes Strauss Good Motorvation Cheese Algernon

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? By Daniel Keyes Strange Learning Existed Farther Knew

Then when you want free association, you could stretch your patient out the way the barber does to lather up his customer, and when the fifty minutes are up, you could tilt the chair forward again and hand him a mirror so he can see what he looks like on the outside after you've shaved his ego. By Daniel Keyes Association Customer Ego Free Stretch

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own. By Daniel Keyes Thing Important Reading Hold

Light and unfeeling. Drifting and expanding through time and space. And then, as I know I am about to pierce the crust of existence, like a flying fish leaping out of the sea, I feel the pull from below. By Daniel Keyes Light Unfeeling Drifting Space Expanding

It was as if I had been looking at the whole thing clearly on the blackboard of my mind, but when I turned to read it, part of it had been erased and the rest didn't make sense. By Daniel Keyes Mind Part Sense Thing Blackboard

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.Charlie Gordan By Daniel Keyes Gordan Feebleminded Man Mencharlie

When you mature intellectually we may not be able to communicate. When you mature emotionally you may not even want me. By Daniel Keyes Communicate Mature Intellectually Emotionally

Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you. By Daniel Keyes Easy Make Frends Pepul Laff

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been. By Daniel Keyes Afraid Life Death Nothingness Wasting

I wanted to be in love with her. I wanted to overcome my emotional and sexual fears, to marry, have children, settle down. By Daniel Keyes Wanted Love Fears Marry Children

I was her bestist pupil in the Beckman School for retarted adults and I tryed the hardist becus I reely wantd to lern I wantid it more even then pepul who are smarter even then me. By Daniel Keyes Beckman School Bestist Pupil Retarted

There is no question about it now. I'm in love. By Daniel Keyes Question Love

I passed your floor on the way up, and now I'm passing it on the way down, and I don't think I'll be taking this elevator again. By Daniel Keyes Passed Floor Passing Taking Elevator

My father was in the paper recycling business back before they called it recycling. By Daniel Keyes Recycling Father Paper Business Back

how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They're people - and afraid the rest of the world will find out. By Daniel Keyes Giants Foolish Thought Professors Intellectual

It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don't remember it. By Daniel Keyes Strange Sensation Pick Book Read

So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop. By Daniel Keyes Stop Person Despise Himselfknowing Wrong

I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain. By Daniel Keyes Thing Learned Intelligence Damn Pain

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection. By Daniel Keyes Give Materials Affection Lot People

. . . the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes . . .' October By Daniel Keyes October Eyes Men Cave

I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried. By Daniel Keyes Algernon Backyard Put Body Cheese

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! By Daniel Keyes Leave Shut Understand God Sake

P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard. By Daniel Keyes Algernons Yard Chanse Put Flowrs

there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn." I By Daniel Keyes Overlooked Intelligence Damn Thing Education

I hate that mouse By Daniel Keyes Mouse Hate

It must be rather dull taking up someone else's work rather than something you've conceived and created yourself. By Daniel Keyes Dull Taking Work Conceived Created

Solitude gives me a chance to read and think, and now that the memories are coming through again - to rediscover my past, to find out who and what I really am. If anything should go wrong, I'll have at least that. By Daniel Keyes Solitude Past Chance Read Memories

Who's to say death is better than your darkness? By Daniel Keyes Darkness Death

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself By Daniel Keyes Afford Spend Time Left

Time assumes another dimension now - work and absorption in the search for an answer. By Daniel Keyes Time Work Answer Assumes Dimension

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. By Daniel Keyes Rules World Makebelieve Parts Consistent

Seeing myself in the front mirror looking into the back mirror, as he held it for me, it tilted for an instant into the one angle that produced the illusion of depth; endless corridors of myself... looking at myself... looking at myself... looking... Which one? Who was I? By Daniel Keyes Mirror Depth Endless Front Back

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. By Daniel Keyes Mind Consciousness Love Answer Problem

What's right? Ironic that all my intelligence doesn't help me solve a problem like this. By Daniel Keyes Ironic Intelligence Solve Problem

The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have, Charlie. By Daniel Keyes Charlie Intelligent Problems

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? By Daniel Keyes Darkness Light Death

Nothing in our minds is ever really gone. By Daniel Keyes Minds

Its easy to have frends if you let pepul laff at you. Im going to have lots of frends where I go. By Daniel Keyes Frends Easy Pepul Laff Lots

But with the freedom came a sadness. By Daniel Keyes Sadness Freedom

It doesn't mean,' she shrugged. 'It just is By Daniel Keyes Shrugged

The current of my mind carried me swiftly into the open sea. By Daniel Keyes Sea Current Mind Carried Swiftly