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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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La Junta
Colorado
Kenneth Kesey
Kenneth Elton Kesey
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Ken E. Kesey
O. U. Levon
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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 seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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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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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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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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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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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
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I been away a long time.
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You’re just a young kid. What are you doin’ here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why… bird-doggin’ chicks and bangin’ beaver. What are ya doin’ here, for Christ’s sake? What’s funny about that? Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothin’ but complain about how you can’t stand it in this place here and then you haven’t got the guts just to walk out!
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Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
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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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When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.
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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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I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.
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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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Always stay in your own movie.
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The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.
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The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.
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Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.
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