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Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end.

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
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But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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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.
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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
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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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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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If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.
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You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
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This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.
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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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It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.
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We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
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Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.
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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
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The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.
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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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There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.
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Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.
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His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.
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