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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.
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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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Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.
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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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To hell with facts! We need stories.
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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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The Haight is just a place the '60s was a spirit.
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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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I been away a long time.
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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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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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I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
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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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The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.
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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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You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?
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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.
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Always stay in your own movie.
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