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Flowers for Algernon (1959)
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If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time.
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When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending— as do many people I've discovered—to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.
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I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov or Watson, but he's doing something important and I respect his dedication - maybe even more because he's just an ordinary man trying to do a great man's work, while the great men are all busy making bombs.
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People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem — they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples.
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Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." —Charlie Gordan
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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.
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Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?
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How many great problems have gone unsolved because men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?
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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.
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I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.
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There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.
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Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.
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How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.
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Dr Strauss said I had something that was very good. He said I had a good motor-vation. I never ever knew I had that. I felt proud when he said that not every body with an eye-q of 68 had that thing. I don't know what it is or where I got it but he said Algernon had it too. Algernons motor-vation is the cheese they put in his box. But it cant be that because I didnt eat any cheese last week.
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What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.
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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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Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. This kind of picture is a lie. Things are forced to fit because the writer or the director or somebody wanted something in that didn't belong. And it doesn't feel right
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I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
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Born:
August 9, 1927
Died:
June 15, 2014
(aged 86)
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