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
driving education happen increase love people possible
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?'
alone damn intelligence leads learned mean
I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.
fact love people
I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.
world able strange
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?
fear life-or-death ifs
I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
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.
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.
affection damn intelligence-and-education
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
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.
music book thinking
Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan
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.
eye body proud
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.
sorry smart grateful
...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.