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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
Kenneth Kesey
Kenneth Elton Kesey
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Ken E. Kesey
O. U. Levon
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The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.
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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.
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He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
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To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs.
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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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Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
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Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than I can deliver, To be able to deliver what I do.
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The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.
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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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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.
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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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I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, The fit is momentary.
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The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
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Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
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But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.
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Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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- he's finished with that it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm bell rusted silent, an old worthless clock that just keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.
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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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