Frasi di Daniel Keyes

Daniel Keyes è stato un autore di fantascienza statunitense, principalmente noto per il suo racconto Fiori per Algernon, del 1959, vincitore del Premio Hugo nel 1960, che adattò in un romanzo omonimo nel 1966 aggiudicandosi con esso il Premio Nebula e in un film nel 1968.

Keyes ha un Bachelor of Arts in psicologia e un Master's degree in letteratura inglese ed americana. Nel 2000, la Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America lo ha insignito del Premio Author Emeritus. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. Agosto 1927 – 15. Giugno 2014

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“You've got to find the answer inside you — feel the right thing to do.”

Daniel Keyes libro Fiori per Algernon

Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Contesto: 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.

“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”

Daniel Keyes libro Fiori per Algernon

Origine: Flowers for Algernon

“Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing.”

Daniel Keyes libro Fiori per Algernon

Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Contesto: Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. 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.

“It's amazing the way things, apparently disconnected, hang together.”

Daniel Keyes libro Fiori per Algernon

Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Contesto: My most absorbing interests at the present time are etymologies of ancient languages, the newer works on the calculus of variations, and Hindu history. It's amazing the way things, apparently disconnected, hang together.

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

Daniel Keyes libro Fiori per Algernon

Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Contesto: Don't misunderstand me," I said. "Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. 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 am not only a thing, but also a way of being”

Daniel Keyes libro Fiori per Algernon

one of many ways — and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.
Flowers for Algernon (1966)

“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love.”

Daniel Keyes libro Fiori per Algernon

Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Contesto: Don't misunderstand me," I said. "Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. 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 am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”

Daniel Keyes libro Fiori per Algernon

Origine: Flowers for Algernon (1966)

“Punctuation, is? fun!”

Daniel Keyes libro Fiori per Algernon

Origine: Flowers for Algernon

“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”

Daniel Keyes libro Fiori per Algernon

Origine: Flowers for Algernon (1966)

“There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin."

--Charlie Gordan”

Daniel Keyes libro Fiori per Algernon

Origine: Flowers for Algernon

“Why am I always looking at life through a window?”

Daniel Keyes libro Fiori per Algernon

Origine: Flowers for Algernon

“Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.”

Daniel Keyes libro Fiori per Algernon

Origine: Flowers for Algernon

“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.”

Daniel Keyes libro Fiori per Algernon

Origine: Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Contesto: 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.

“Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.”

Daniel Keyes libro Fiori per Algernon

Origine: Flowers for Algernon (1966)

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

Daniel Keyes libro Fiori per Algernon

Origine: Flowers for Algernon

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