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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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La Junta
Colorado
Kenneth Kesey
Kenneth Elton Kesey
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Ken E. Kesey
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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'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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If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.
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You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
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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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Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.
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If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
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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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What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?
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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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Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
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He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
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Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
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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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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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Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.
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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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To hell with facts! We need stories.
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What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure all the guy had to do was wait.
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