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Flowers for Algernon
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"Flowers for Algernon" Quotes

An intellectually disabled man undergoes an experimental surgery that dramatically increases his intelligence, but his newfound intelligence comes with unexpected consequences.

Quotes

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.

Daniel Keyes

identityloneliness

I don’t want to feel it. I don’t want to feel anything. It seems safer that way.

Daniel Keyes

emotionssafety

P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.

Daniel Keyes

remembranceloss

Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and evrey thing that happins to me from now on.

Daniel Keyes

self-reflection

I told him I dint want to race him anymore. I told him I was sorry. But he said that was the wrong way to think.

Daniel Keyes

friendshipforgiveness

I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.

Daniel Keyes

intelligenceacceptance

If you have no friend, you are a friendless person. That’s what a friend of mine said. That’s because I have no friends yet.

Daniel Keyes

friendshiploneliness

I aint never had a likin for a girl before. How come I feel this way about her?

Daniel Keyes

loveconfusion

I’m not very brave about facing up to things, and I don’t even know for sure if I want to be smart again.

Daniel Keyes

fearintelligence

I’m ashamed of you, Charlie, acting so ashamed of your friends.

Daniel Keyes

shamefriendship