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• There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Charlie Gordan

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  Doors, Impatient, Charlie

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• Punctuation, is? fun!

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  Fun, Punctuation

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?

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  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.257, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I may not have all the time I thought I had.

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  May

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have.

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  Men, Wonderful, Wonderful Things

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.241, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I’m “exceptional”- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of “gifted” and “deprived” (which used to mean “bright” and “retarded”) and as soon as “exceptional” begins to mean anything to anyone they’ll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression as long as it doesn’t mean anything to anybody. “Exceptional” refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I’ve been exceptional.

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  Mean, Expression, Ideas

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other - child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway towards the goal-box of solitary death.

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  Lonely, Children, Moving

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. This kind of picture is a lie. Things are forced to fit because the writer or the director or somebody wanted something in that didn't belong. And it doesn't feel right

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  Lying, Believe, Together

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of written communication. Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less - filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt.

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  Men, Discipline, Library

  "Flowers for Algernon".

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• I was her bestist pupil in the Beckman School for retarted adults and I tryed the hardist becus I reely wantd to lern I wantid it more even then pepul who are smarter even then me.

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  School, Adults, Pupils

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• And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.

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  Plato, Eye, Men

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.285, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.

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  Benches, Incredibles, Deaf

  Daniel Keyes (2012). “Flowers For Algernon”, p.142, Hachette UK

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• 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 can't be that because I didn't eat any cheese last week.

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  Eye, Drs, Body

  "Flowers for Algernon". Book by Daniel Keyes, April 1959.

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• Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.

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  Believe, Together, World

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men." --Charlie Gordan

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  Men, Want, Charlie

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• Remembering how my mother looked before she gave birth to my sister is frightening. But even more frightening is the feeling that I wanted them to catch me and beat me. Why did I want to be punished? Shadows out of the past clutch at my legs and drag me down. I open my mouth to scream, but I am voiceless. My hands are trembling, I feel cold, and there is a distant humming in my ears.

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  Mother, Past, Hands

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.

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  Want, Able, Enough

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.220, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.

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  Mistake, Laughing, Feelings

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov or Watson, but he's doing something important and I respect his dedication - maybe even more because he's just an ordinary man trying to do a great man's work, while the great men are all busy making bombs.

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  Men, Dedication, Important

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all fixed up better than ever. Test me. Ask me questions. I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I'm a mathematical whiz, and I'm writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I'm gone.

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  Book, Writing, Son

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

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  Men, Originals

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.243, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.

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  Order, People, Annoyed

  Bert Coules, Daniel Keyes (1993). “The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon”, p.65, Heinemann

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