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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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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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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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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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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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Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
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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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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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Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them.... And women, when confronted by superiors, substitute for drink the crippling liquor of their sex.
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It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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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 makes people so impatient is what I can't figure all the guy had to do was wait.
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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
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Now, you’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus.
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If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.
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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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But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
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When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.
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To hell with facts! We need stories.
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