Daniel Keyes
Daniel Keyes
Daniel Keyeswas an American author best known for his Hugo award-winning short story and Nebula award-winning novel Flowers for Algernon. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 August 1927
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
mean expression ideas
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.
fun punctuation
Punctuation, is? fun!
knowing way path
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.
pain psychosis self
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.
music book thinking
Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan
college important going-to-college
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.
affection damn intelligence-and-education
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
enough i-can my-time
I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself
hurt laughing people
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.
fall leave-me-alone want
Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.
thinking people dumb
People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.
knowing able despise
So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.
men discipline library
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.
wanted feels knows
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.