Quote

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

Ken Kesey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
La Junta
Colorado
Kenneth Kesey
Kenneth Elton Kesey
Ken Elton Kesey
Ken E. Kesey
O. U. Levon
Wanted
Deaf
Hear
Acting
Keep

More quotes by Ken Kesey

Image
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.
Ken Kesey
Image
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.
Ken Kesey
Image
The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.
Ken Kesey
Image
To hell with facts! We need stories.
Ken Kesey
Image
But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
Ken Kesey
Image
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
Ken Kesey
Image
Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.
Ken Kesey
Image
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.
Ken Kesey
Image
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.
Ken Kesey
Image
If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.
Ken Kesey
Image
Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.
Ken Kesey
Image
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
Ken Kesey
Image
You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.
Ken Kesey
Image
It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.
Ken Kesey
Image
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.
Ken Kesey
Image
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!
Ken Kesey
Image
There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.
Ken Kesey
Image
He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
Ken Kesey
Image
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.
Ken Kesey
Image
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
Ken Kesey