Daniel Keyes quotes

Daniel Keyes was an American author best known for his science fiction novel "Flowers for Algernon." His works often explore themes of intelligence, identity, and the human mind. He remains celebrated for his profound impact on both literature and psychological fiction. Here are 52 of his quotes:

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here. (Daniel Keyes)
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. View quote
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I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been. View quote
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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. View quote
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A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger. View quote
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Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. View quote
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Why am I always looking at life through a window? View quote
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Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you. View quote
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Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men." --Charlie Gordan. View quote
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Now I understand 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. View quote
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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. (Daniel Keyes)
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn. View quote
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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. View quote
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I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried. View quote
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I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself. View quote
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I've got to grow up. For me it means everything... View quote
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People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem - they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples. View quote
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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? View quote
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You don't know what it's like to have something happening inside you, that you can't see and can't control, and know it's all slipping through your fingers. View quote
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You can't have everything you want in one woman. View quote
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There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Charlie Gordan. (Daniel Keyes)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Daniel Keyes

Occupation: American Author
Born: August 9, 1927
Died: June 15, 2014
Quotes count: 52
Wikipedia: Daniel Keyes

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