How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.

Daniel Keyes

Categorized in : Thinking Men Eye

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Ch... by Daniel Keyes

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

music book thinking

There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Char... by Daniel Keyes

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

impatient charlie doors

If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time.

smart ifs

Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you. by Daniel Keyes

Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.

ifs easy

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.

expression mean ideas

Punctuation, is? fun! by Daniel Keyes

Punctuation, is? fun!

punctuation fun

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.

hurt laughing people

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I ne... by Daniel Keyes

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

strange

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough... by Daniel Keyes

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself

my-time left enough

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

deaf incredibles benches

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don... by Daniel Keyes

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

want leave-me-alone fall

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.

writing book son

I may not have all the time I thought I had. by Daniel Keyes

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

may

I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backy... by Daniel Keyes

I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.

backyards cheese body

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.

eye plato men

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

together believe world

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men." --Charlie G... by Daniel Keyes

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

charlie want men

Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have. by Daniel Keyes

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

wonderful-things wonderful men

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.

pupils adults school

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

book children people