Quotes from Daniel Keyes

Você não pode construir um novo edifício em uma área até destruir o que existia antes, e o antigo Charlie não pode ser destruído. Ele existe.

Existem muitas pessoas que darão dinheiro ou bens materiais, mas poucas que darão tempo e atenção.

Eu estava em uma escada rolante para baixo agora. Se eu ficasse parado, iria direto pra baixo, mas, se eu começasse a subir a escada, talvez conseguisse ao menos ficar no mesmo lugar. O importante era seguir me movendo pra cima independentemente do que acontecesse.

Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

I dint know they had majers in collidge. I thot it was onley in the army. Anyway

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.

I've got to guard against the natural tendency to look down on them now that I have surpassed them.

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection. That's what I mean.' His voice grew harsh, and he pointed to an empty baby bottle on the bookshelf across the room.

I've got to realize that when they continually admonish me to speak and write simply so that people who read these reports will be able to understand me, they are talking about themselves as well. But still it's frightening to realize that my fate is in the hands of men who are not the giants I once thought them to be, men who don't know all the answers.

It doesn't mean - she shrugged. It just is - like a poem.

Today, I learned, the comma, this is, a, comma (,) a period, with, a tail, Miss Kinnian, says its, importent, because, it makes writing, better, she said, somebody, could lose, a lot, of money, if a comma, isnt in, the right, place, I got, some money, that I, saved from, my job, and what, the foundation, pays me, but not, much and, I dont, see how, a comma, keeps, you from, losing it, But, she says, everybody, uses commas, so Ill, use them, too,,,,   April

The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have, Charlie

I put Algernon's body into a small metal container and took him home with me. I wasn't going to let them dump him into the incinerator. It's foolish and sentimental, but late last night I buried him in the back yard. I wept as I put a bunch of wild flowers on the grave.

On the sidewalk, a discarded refrigerator with its face ripped off, and on the curb an old mattress with wire intestines hanging out of its belly.

What's right? Ironic that all my intelligence doesn't help me solve a problem like this.

But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn." I

Anyone who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light

Its getting chilly out but I still put flowers on Algernons grave.

I danced with too many squares tonight. Let's melt 'em all down.

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

Chiudendo la porta sul mondo reale, potremo vivere in pace nel nostro. Sappiamo che un mondo senza dolore è un mondo senza sentimento... ma un mondo senza sentimento è un mondo senza dolore.

Estranho sobre aprender; quanto mais longe eu vou, mais vejo o que nunca soube que sequer existia. Algum tempo atrás, totalmente imaginei que poderia aprender tudo - todo conhecimento existente. Agora espero apenas ser capaz de saber de sua existência e entender um mínimo disso.

I am an expanding universe swimming upward in a silent sea.

Dan, you don't mean to tell me that you didn't get in touch with the bookstores in Detroit and tell them about it." "No," I said. "I'm kind of shy. And I didn't think it was my job." "Dan, you shouldn't hide your light under a bushel