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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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Kenneth Elton Kesey
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O. U. Levon
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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. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.
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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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Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end.
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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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You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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She asked if we were calm enough for her to take off the cuffs, and McMurphy nodded. He had slumped over with his head hung and his elbows between his knees and looked completely exhausted--it hadn't occurred to me that it was just as hard for him to stand straight as it was for me.
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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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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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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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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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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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I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, The fit is momentary.
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