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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
Ken Kesey
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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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Anesthetized time nothing moves and everything is at once.
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If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
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- he's finished with that it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm bell rusted silent, an old worthless clock that just keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.
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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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Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than I can deliver, To be able to deliver what I do.
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But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
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He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
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She asked if we were calm enough for her to take off the cuffs, and McMurphy nodded. He had slumped over with his head hung and his elbows between his knees and looked completely exhausted--it hadn't occurred to me that it was just as hard for him to stand straight as it was for me.
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Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.
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There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.
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It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.
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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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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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You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.
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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.
Ken Kesey
Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.
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I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!
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The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.
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But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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