Frases de Daniel Keyes

Daniel Keyes [1]​ fue un psicólogo y escritor estadounidense universalmente conocido por su relato Flores para Algernon, que luego convirtió en la novela del mismo título que ganó el premio Nébula en 1966. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. agosto 1927 – 15. junio 2014

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Flores para Algernon
Flores para Algernon
Daniel Keyes
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Frases célebres de Daniel Keyes

Daniel Keyes: Frases en inglés

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

Daniel Keyes libro Flores para Algernon

Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Contexto: 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 Flores para Algernon

Fuente: Flowers for Algernon

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

Daniel Keyes libro Flores para Algernon

Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Contexto: 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 Flores para Algernon

Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Contexto: 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 Flores para Algernon

Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Contexto: 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 Flores para 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 Flores para Algernon

Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Contexto: 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 Flores para Algernon

Fuente: Flowers for Algernon (1966)

“Punctuation, is? fun!”

Daniel Keyes libro Flores para Algernon

Fuente: Flowers for Algernon

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

Daniel Keyes libro Flores para Algernon

Fuente: Flowers for Algernon (1966)

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

--Charlie Gordan”

Daniel Keyes libro Flores para Algernon

Fuente: Flowers for Algernon

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

Daniel Keyes libro Flores para Algernon

Fuente: 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 Flores para Algernon

Fuente: 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 Flores para Algernon

Fuente: Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Contexto: 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 Flores para Algernon

Fuente: 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 Flores para Algernon

Fuente: Flowers for Algernon

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