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The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

Ken Kesey

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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
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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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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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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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A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance . . . like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything but himself and his dying.
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To hell with facts! We need stories.
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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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We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
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You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
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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 secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.
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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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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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