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

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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.
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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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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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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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You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
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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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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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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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I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
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