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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.
Ken Kesey
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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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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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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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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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You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
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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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The Haight is just a place the '60s was a spirit.
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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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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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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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There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what.
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The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.
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It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
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To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs.
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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
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