Quotes Flowers Of Algernon

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 appears to be.

Quotes flowers of algernon. See more ideas about flowers for algernon flowers for algernon quotes words. The short story written in 1958 and first published in the april 1959 issue of the magazine of fantasy science fiction won the hugo award for best short story in 1960. 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 path i choose through that maze makes me what i am. Charlie gordon develops higher intelligence in flowers for algernon a few quotes from the book show how he begins to understand the world around him.