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I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
Ken Kesey
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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
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I been away a long time.
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You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
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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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The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.
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His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.
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They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.
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Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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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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