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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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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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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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What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure all the guy had to do was wait.
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Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end.
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But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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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 dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.
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Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.
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I been away a long time.
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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
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To hell with facts! We need stories.
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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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The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
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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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I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.
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The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.
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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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