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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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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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This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.
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If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
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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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There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus.
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They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.
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Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
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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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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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You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.
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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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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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I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
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The Haight is just a place the '60s was a spirit.
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The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.
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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've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
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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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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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His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.
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