Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

‘The more intelligent you become the more problems you’ll have, Charlie.

‘I guess we all sneer at something. You’re sneering at the phonies and dilettantes, aren’t you?’

How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes – how such people think nothing of abusing a man born with low intelligence.