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See with your ears and hear with your eyes.

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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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I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!
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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 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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Then - as he was talking - a set of tail-lights going past lit up McMurphy's face, and the windshield reflected an expression that was allowed only because he figured it'd be too dark for anybody in the car to see, dreadfully tired and strained and frantic, like there wasn't enough time left for something he had to do.
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To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs.
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What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's 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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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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I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, The fit is momentary.
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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
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The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.
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Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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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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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
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Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end.
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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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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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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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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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