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Flowers For Algernon Quotes

Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Flowers For Algernon Quotes
"I hope they use me becaus Miss Kinnian says mabye they can make me smart. I want to be smart."
"All he had was those wite cards. His name is Burt. I fergot his last name because I dont remembir so good."
"I tolld Burt I saw ink spilld on a wite card. Burt said yes and he smild and that maid me feel good."
"Gimpy hollers at me all the time when I do something rong, but he reely likes me because hes my frend."
"I dint know what sience is but they all keep saying it so mabye its something that helps you have good luk."
"I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me."
"Maybe if I get intelligent enough I’ll understand all the words in my mind."
"I never knew about these things before. It’s like if I get intelligent I'll learn about myself."
"Now I know what they mean when they say 'to pull a Charlie Gordon.'"
"I’m glad now I don’t have to ask anyone to write things for me. Now I can do it for myself."
"People are not proud of me the way I expected—not at all."
"It’s hard to break the habit of listening because people have always spoken and acted as if I weren’t there."
"I found myself frightened. Suddenly, I realized I no longer had the right to stand there outside the office and listen to them without their knowing it."
"There’s so much to do, so many plans to make."
"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."
"He’ll grow up like other people. Better than others."
"I’m not going to take him. There’s nothing wrong with him!"
"He’s normal. He’s normal! He’ll grow up like other people. Better than others."
"He’s not a dummy. He’s normal. He’ll be just like everyone else."
"Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together."
"You’re beginning to see what’s behind the surface of things."
"Ordinary people can see only a little bit. They can’t change much or go any higher than they are, but you’re a genius."
"It’s your attitude toward people—you’re not the same kind of human being."
"All this has changed me and the way I think about myself."
"I wanted to overcome my emotional and sexual fears, to marry, have children, settle down."
"It was evil when Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge."
"I’ve thought about death often in recent weeks, but not really about God."
"Being rejected by your parents … being sent away…"
"You take liberties with other people’s minds."
"I owe this progress report to Burt who had the bright idea that I could dictate this on a transistor tape recorder."
"Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men."
"A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger."
"How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man born with low intelligence."
"It infuriated me to remember that not too long ago I—like this boy—had foolishly played the clown."
"There is so much that can be done with this technique, if it is perfected."
"The walls between people are thin here, and if I listen quietly, I hear what is going on."
"Solitude gives me a chance to read and think, and now that the memories are coming through again—to rediscover my past, to find out who and what I really am."
"I’ve got to stop this childish worrying about myself—my past and my future."
"I’ve got to grow up. For me it means everything…."
"They were laughing at him because he was retarded."
"Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis."
"I’ve learned that intelligence alone doesn’t mean a damned thing."
"Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love."
"I’m not going to give up my intelligence without a struggle."
"No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures."
"I’ve discovered that nobody really cares about Charlie Gordon, whether he’s a moron or a genius."
"I can’t be a complete person unless I can understand myself."
"I’m living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed."
"The only real things are the cages and the mice and the lab equipment here on the fourth floor of the main building."
"I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me what I am."
"I must remember I’m the only person this ever happened to. As long as I can, I’ve got to keep putting down my thoughts and feelings."
"I tell myself there’ll be time enough to sleep later, when it’s dark."
"We had a little time together before we got out of touch. We had things to talk about, and things to do together."
"The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space."
"This was the way we loved, until the night became a silent day."
"I wish I coud be smart agen rite now. If I coud I woud sit down and reed all the time."
"Its easy to have frends if you let pepul laff at you. I’m going to have lots of frends where I go."
"P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard."