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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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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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Anesthetized time nothing moves and everything is at once.
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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
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The world news might not be therapeutic.
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The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?
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She asked if we were calm enough for her to take off the cuffs, and McMurphy nodded. He had slumped over with his head hung and his elbows between his knees and looked completely exhausted--it hadn't occurred to me that it was just as hard for him to stand straight as it was for me.
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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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I've never seen crack or a lot of these new drugs. Don't know anything about them. I don't know what they do for you, or whether they do anything good for you or not. But I do still have a lot of faith in the spiritual purity of LSD and pot.
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Now, you’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus.
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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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You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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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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He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
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Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end.
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The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.
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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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But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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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.
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When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.
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