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To hell with facts! We need stories.

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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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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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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
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Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.
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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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I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
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See with your ears and hear with your eyes.
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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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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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