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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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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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I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!
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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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Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
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See with your ears and hear with your eyes.
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I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.
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You’re just a young kid. What are you doin’ here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why… bird-doggin’ chicks and bangin’ beaver. What are ya doin’ here, for Christ’s sake? What’s funny about that? Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothin’ but complain about how you can’t stand it in this place here and then you haven’t got the guts just to walk out!
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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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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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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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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
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It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.
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Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.
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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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