Quote

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.

Ken Kesey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
La Junta
Colorado
Kenneth Kesey
Kenneth Elton Kesey
Ken Elton Kesey
Ken E. Kesey
O. U. Levon
Way
Looked
People
Wasn
Face
Faces
Wanted
Even
Trying
Really
Cuckoos

More quotes by Ken Kesey

Image
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.
Ken Kesey
Image
What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?
Ken Kesey
Image
Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.
Ken Kesey
Image
There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what.
Ken Kesey
Image
Always stay in your own movie.
Ken Kesey
Image
You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.
Ken Kesey
Image
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.
Ken Kesey
Image
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
Ken Kesey
Image
I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.
Ken Kesey
Image
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
Ken Kesey
Image
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
Image
Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.
Ken Kesey
Image
I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
Ken Kesey
Image
We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
Ken Kesey
Image
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
Image
I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
Ken Kesey
Image
Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.
Ken Kesey
Image
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
Image
I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, The fit is momentary.
Ken Kesey
Image
The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?
Ken Kesey