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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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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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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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I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
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Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.
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It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.
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I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
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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.
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The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.
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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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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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He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
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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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Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.
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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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Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end.
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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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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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If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
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Mr. Bibbit, you might warn this Mr. Harding that I'm so crazy I admit to voting for Eisenhower. Bibbit! You tell Mr. McMurphy I'm so crazy I voted for Eisenhower twice! And you tell Mr. Harding right back — he puts both hands on the table and leans down, his voice getting low — that I'm so crazy I plan to vote for Eisenhower again this November.
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