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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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The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.
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But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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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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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
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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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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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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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I've never seen crack or a lot of these new drugs. Don't know anything about them. I don't know what they do for you, or whether they do anything good for you or not. But I do still have a lot of faith in the spiritual purity of LSD and pot.
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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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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 are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.
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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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Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.
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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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The Haight is just a place the '60s was a spirit.
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Always stay in your own movie.
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- he's finished with that it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm bell rusted silent, an old worthless clock that just keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.
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I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
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