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Ken Kesey

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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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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.
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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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Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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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 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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Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.
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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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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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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 had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself
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Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end.
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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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When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.
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The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.
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He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
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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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Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.
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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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We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
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