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See with your ears and hear with your eyes.

Ken Kesey

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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.
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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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But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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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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Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.
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A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance . . . like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything but himself and his dying.
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But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
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