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Ken Kesey Inspirational Quotes (78)

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There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus.
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He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
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The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.
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The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.
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I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
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Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.
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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
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Now, you’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus.
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That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.
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What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.
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A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance . . . like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything but himself and his dying.
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I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
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This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.
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I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!
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I've never seen crack or a lot of these new drugs. Don't know anything about them. I don't know what they do for you, or whether they do anything good for you or not. But I do still have a lot of faith in the spiritual purity of LSD and pot.
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It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.
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Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.
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But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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Anesthetized time nothing moves and everything is at once.
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If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.
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Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than I can deliver, To be able to deliver what I do.
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There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.
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You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself
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Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them.... And women, when confronted by superiors, substitute for drink the crippling liquor of their sex.
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