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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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There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus.
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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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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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The world news might not be therapeutic.
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You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
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His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.
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Always stay in your own movie.
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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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Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end.
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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?
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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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The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.
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