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The world news might not be therapeutic.

Ken Kesey

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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.
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See with your ears and hear with your eyes.
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You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself
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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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The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.
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To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs.
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Anesthetized time nothing moves and everything is at once.
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Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
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Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them.... And women, when confronted by superiors, substitute for drink the crippling liquor of their sex.
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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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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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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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I been away a long time.
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The Haight is just a place the '60s was a spirit.
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Now, you’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus.
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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 had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.
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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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Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.
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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
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