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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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La Junta
Colorado
Kenneth Kesey
Kenneth Elton Kesey
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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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Now, you’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus.
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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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Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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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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To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs.
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Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.
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What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.
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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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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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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 felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.
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You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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To hell with facts! We need stories.
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Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
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