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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

Ken Kesey

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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?
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I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.
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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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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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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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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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You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.
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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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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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Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.
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When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.
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I been away a long time.
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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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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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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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I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, The fit is momentary.
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See with your ears and hear with your eyes.
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You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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Always stay in your own movie.
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