Quotes from Daniel Keyes

Seeing Charlie huddled beneath the covers I wish I could give him comfort, explain to him that he has done nothing wrong, that is beyond him to change his mother's attitude back to what it was before his sister came. There on the bed, Charlie did not understand what they were saying, but now it hurts. If I could reach out into the past of my memories, I would make her see how much she was hurting me.

So even if I'm getting intelligent and learning a lot of new things, he thinks I'm still a boy about women. It's confusing, but I'm going to find out all about my life.

You're damned right, something is happening! A cloud of smoke was hanging in front of my eyes, and with one breath you blew it away. A simple idea. Trust myself. And it never occurred to me before. Charlie, you're wonderful. I caught her hand and held it. No, it's you. You touch my eyes and make me see. She blushed and pulled her hand back. The last time we were here, I said, I told you I liked you. I should have trusted myself to say I love you.

I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies.

L'intelligenza e l'educazione che non siano temperate dall'affetto umano non valgono nulla.

Other people had something I lacked something denied me. In my mental blindness, I had believed it was somehow connected with the ability to read and write, and I was sure that if I could get those skills I would have intelligence too. 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.

Ce ciudat este faptul c? niÈ™te oameni cu sentimente oneste de sensibilitate, care nu s-ar lua niciodat? de un om n?scut f?r? mâini, picioare sau ochi, nu se dau înapoi de la maltratarea unui om slab de minte.. Chiar È™i un om slab de minte vrea s? fie asemeni celorlalÈ›i oameni. Un copil mic poate s? nu È™tie cum s? se hr?neasc? singur sau ce s? m?nânce, dar È™tie c?-i este foame..

Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis.

O universo explodia, cada partícula distante da outra, lançando-nos violentamente para o espaço escuro e solitário, eternamente nos separando um do outro – criança para fora do útero, amigo longe de amigo, mudando-se para lugares distantes, cada um com seu próprio caminho rumo à caixa de recompensas da morte solitária.

I guess Nemur's fear of being revealed as a man walking on stilts among giants is understandable. Failure at this point would destroy him.

You can't have everything you want in one woman. One more argument for polygamy.

Humility and self-effacement ... get a person [little] in this life.

Es gibt kein größeres Glück als die plötzlich aufflammende Lösung eines Problems.

If I coud I woud sit down and reed all the time.

still hear her. But perhaps I had been released. Maybe the fear and nausea was no longer a sea to drown in, but only a pool of water reflecting the past alongside the now. Was I free?

Charlie, you amaze me. In some ways you're so advanced, and yet when it comes to making a decision, you're still a child. I can't decide for you, Charlie. 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.

Cuanto más inteligente te vuelvas, más problemas tendrás, Charlie.

Depois da lição, desci e brinquei com Algernon. Nós não competimos mais.

spend most of my free time at the library now, reading and soaking up what I can from books. I'm not concentrating on anything in particular, just reading a lot of fiction now—Dostoevski, Flaubert, Dickens, Hemingway, Faulkner—everything I can get my hands on—feeding a hunger that can't be satisfied.

If you ever reed this Miss Kinnian dont be sorry for me. Im glad I got a second chanse in life like you said to be smart because I lerned alot of things that I never even new were in this werld and Im grateful I saw it all even for a littel bit.

Dr Strauss said dont be so superstishus Charlie. This is sience. I dont no what sience is but they all keep saying it so mabye its something that helps you have good luk.

May 25—So this is how a person can come to despise himself—knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

Dr Strauss said do anything the testor telld me even if it dont make no sense because thats testing.

I'm not sure what I.Q. is anyway. Prof. Nemur said it was something that measured how intelligent you were—like a scale in the drugstore weighs pounds. But Dr. Strauss had a big argument with him and said an I.Q. didn't weigh intelligence at all. He said an I.Q. showed how much intelligence you could get, like the numbers on the outside of a measuring cup. You still had to fill the cup up with stuff.