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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what.
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I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.
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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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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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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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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 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 Haight is just a place the '60s was a spirit.
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To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs.
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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
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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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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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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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When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.
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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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If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?
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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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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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Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them.... And women, when confronted by superiors, substitute for drink the crippling liquor of their sex.
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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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