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Daniel Keyes was a 20th-century American author. Daniel Keyes was an American writer best known as the author of the novel Flowers for Algernon. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Knowledge — The pursuit of learning, understanding, and intellectual growth

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“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
— Daniel Keyes
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“By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling But a world without feeling is a world without pain.”
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“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”
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“Punctuation, is? fun!”
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“I dont know whats worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what youve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
— Daniel Keyes
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“Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.”
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