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He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
Ken Kesey
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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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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.
Ken Kesey
If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.
Ken Kesey
I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.
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You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.
Ken Kesey
When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.
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See with your ears and hear with your eyes.
Ken Kesey
There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.
Ken Kesey
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?
Ken Kesey
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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The Haight is just a place the '60s was a spirit.
Ken Kesey
To hell with facts! We need stories.
Ken Kesey
I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.
Ken Kesey
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.
Ken Kesey
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
If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
Ken Kesey
Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.
Ken Kesey
Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Ken Kesey
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
I've never seen crack or a lot of these new drugs. Don't know anything about them. I don't know what they do for you, or whether they do anything good for you or not. But I do still have a lot of faith in the spiritual purity of LSD and pot.
Ken Kesey
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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