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....
People think it’s funny when a dumb person can’t do things the same way they can.
I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.
One of the things that confuses me is never really knowing when something comes up from my past, whether it really happened that way, or if that was the way it seemed to be at the time, or if I’m inve...
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 intelli...
April 6—Today, I learned, the comma, this is, a, comma (,) a period, with, a tail, Miss Kinnian, says its, importent, because, it makes writing, better, she said, somebody, could lose, a lot, of money...
Although we know the end of the maze holds death (and it is something I have not always known--not long ago the adolescent in me thought death could happen only to other people), I see now that the pa...
There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.
I started out the evening with every intention of being pleasant and making friends. But these days I have trouble getting through to people. I don’t know if it’s me or them, but any attempt at conver...
The more intelligent you become the more problems you’ll have, Charlie.
Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.
When you mature intellectually we may not be able to communicate. When you mature emotionally you may not even want me.
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?
That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.
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.
A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.
Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I'm grateful I saw it even for a l...
They would always find excuses to slip away, afraid to reveal the narrowness of their knowledge.
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.
Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it a...
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