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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 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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But, gee, the other nurse says, what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What possible motive...?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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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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Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.
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The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.
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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
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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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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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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
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There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what.
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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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Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.
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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
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That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.
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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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What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?
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If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
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It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.
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If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.
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