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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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You’re just a young kid. What are you doin’ here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why… bird-doggin’ chicks and bangin’ beaver. What are ya doin’ here, for Christ’s sake? What’s funny about that? Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothin’ but complain about how you can’t stand it in this place here and then you haven’t got the guts just to walk out!
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I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.
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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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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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Always stay in your own movie.
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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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To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs.
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We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
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I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.
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You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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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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