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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
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'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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Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
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But, gee, the other nurse says, what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What possible motive...?You seem to forget, MISS Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.
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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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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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Then - as he was talking - a set of tail-lights going past lit up McMurphy's face, and the windshield reflected an expression that was allowed only because he figured it'd be too dark for anybody in the car to see, dreadfully tired and strained and frantic, like there wasn't enough time left for something he had to do.
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The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?
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I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, The fit is momentary.
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You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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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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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
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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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What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?
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The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.
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It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.
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