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I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
Ken Kesey
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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.
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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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When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.
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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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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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But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
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What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure all the guy had to do was wait.
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