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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.
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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 plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.
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Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end.
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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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I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.
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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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The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?
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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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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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You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
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I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.
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He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
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I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
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I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!
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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
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Then - as he was talking - a set of tail-lights going past lit up McMurphy's face, and the windshield reflected an expression that was allowed only because he figured it'd be too dark for anybody in the car to see, dreadfully tired and strained and frantic, like there wasn't enough time left for something he had to do.
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I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
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There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what.
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If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?
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