Daniel Keyes
Daniel Keyes
Daniel Keyeswas an American author best known for his Hugo award-winning short story and Nebula award-winning novel Flowers for Algernon. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 August 1927
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
thinking people dumb
People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.
knowing able despise
So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.
men discipline library
I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication. 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.
wanted feels knows
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.
fear life-or-death ifs
I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
world able strange
Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?
fact love people
I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.