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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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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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Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
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But, gee, the other nurse says, what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What possible motive...?You seem to forget, MISS Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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Now, you’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus.
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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 felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.
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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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I been away a long time.
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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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The world news might not be therapeutic.
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Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than I can deliver, To be able to deliver what I do.
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There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.
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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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If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.
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What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?
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Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?
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The Haight is just a place the '60s was a spirit.
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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.
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I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!
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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
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