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Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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. — Daniel Keyes

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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. — Daniel Keyes

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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. — Daniel Keyes

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

I may soon be coming to Warren, tos pend the rest of my life with the others ... waiting. — Daniel Keyes

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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. — Daniel Keyes

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Nicola Yoon

Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?
One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day. — Nicola Yoon

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Algernon Charles Swinburne

You came, and the sun came after,
And the green grew golden above;
And the flag-flowers lightened with laughter,
And the meadowsweet shook with love — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

Who's to say that death is better than your darkness? — Daniel Keyes

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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. — Daniel Keyes

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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. — Daniel Keyes

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Algernon Charles Swinburne

And Iseult rose up where she sat apart,
And with her sweet soul deepening her deep eyes
Cast the furs from her and subtle embroideries
That wrapped her from the storming rain and spray,
And shining like all April in one day,
Hair, face, and throat dashed with the straying showers,
She stood the first of all the whole world's flowers,
And laughed on Tristram with her eyes, and said,
"I too have heart then, I was not afraid."
And answering some light courteous word of grace
He saw her clear face lighten on his face
Unwittingly, with unenamoured eyes
For the last time. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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. — Daniel Keyes

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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. — Daniel Keyes

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Algernon Charles Swinburne

For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered is grief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Tina Fey

I felt like that character in Flowers for Algernon. Not Charlie, the lady teacher from the college who realizes, 'I've got to stop dry-humping this mentally challenged guy! — Tina Fey

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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. — Daniel Keyes

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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. — Daniel Keyes

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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. — Daniel Keyes

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

I may not have all the time I thought I had... — Daniel Keyes

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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. — Daniel Keyes

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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. — Daniel Keyes

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Clint Catalyst

Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records. — Clint Catalyst

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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. — Daniel Keyes

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Algernon Charles Swinburne

I am tired of tears and laughter,
And men that laugh and weep
Of what may come hereafter
For men that sow to reap:
I am weary of days and hours,
Blown buds of barren flowers,
Desires and dreams and powers
And everything but sleep. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

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? — Daniel Keyes

Algernon In Flowers For Algernon Quotes By Daniel Keyes

Why am I always looking at life through a window? — Daniel Keyes