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They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.
Ken Kesey
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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.
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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 seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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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. 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.
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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.
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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
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I been away a long time.
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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.
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Anesthetized time nothing moves and everything is at once.
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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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