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Daniel Keyes Biography

Daniel Keyes (August 9, 1927 – June 15, 2014) was an American writer who wrote the novel Flowers for Algernon. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.

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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.

Followed, Knowing, Maze, Mazes, Thing, Way

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

Backyard, Backyards, Body, Buried, Cheese

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.

Book, Mathematical, Piano, Son, Whiz, Writing

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

Fear, Ifs, Life, Life Or Death, Nothingness, Wasting

So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

Able, Despise, Knowing, Thing, Wrong

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

Children, Eat, Hunger, Knows, May

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.

Algernon, Body, Box, Cheese, Drs, Eye

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

Easy, Frends, Ifs, Laff, Let

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

Apart, Fall, Falling, Leave, Leave Me Alone, Want

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.

Able, Enough, Happen, See, Want

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

Book, Children, People, Right, Trust, Unless

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

May, Thought, Time

. . . 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.

Grateful, Like, Said, Saw, Smart, Sorry

People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.

Dumb, People, Same, Things, Thinking, Way

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself

Afford, Enough, Left, My Time, Time

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

Charlie, Gordan, Like, Man, Men, Want

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

Existed, Farther, Learning, See, Strange

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?

Darkness, Death, Light, Say

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.

Away, Children, Death, Lonely, Moving, Space

If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time.

Frends, Ifs, Lots, Smart, Talk, Time

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