Quoting Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966

I think it’s a good thing about finding out how everybody laughs at me. I thought about it a lot. It’s because I’m so dumb and I don’t even know when I’m doing something dumb. People think it’s funny when a dumb person can’t do things the same way they can.

— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966

5:41pm on August 9, 2025 from Armenia.


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