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If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
Ken Kesey
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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs.
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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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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
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It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.
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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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I been away a long time.
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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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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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I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, The fit is momentary.
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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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