Flowers for Algernon is the title of a science fiction short story and a novel by American writer Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. The novel was published in 1966 and was joint winner of that year's Nebula Award for Best Novel .Algernon is a laboratory mouse who has undergone surgery to increase his intelligence. The story is told by a series of progress reports written by Charlie Gordon, the first human subject for the surgery, and it touches on ethical and moral themes such as the treatment of the mentally disabled.Although the book has often been challenged for removal from libraries in the United States and Canada, sometimes successfully, it is frequently taught in schools around the world and has been adapted many times for television, theatre, radio and as the Academy Award-winning film Charly.
“You've got to find the answer inside you — feel the right thing to do.”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Context: 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.
“Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Source: Flowers for Algernon (1966)
“Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin."
--Charlie Gordan”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
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“I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Source: Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Source: Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Context: 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.
“I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
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“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Source: Flowers for Algernon (1966)
“P. S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Source: Flowers for Algernon
