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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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I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
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I've never seen crack or a lot of these new drugs. Don't know anything about them. I don't know what they do for you, or whether they do anything good for you or not. But I do still have a lot of faith in the spiritual purity of LSD and pot.
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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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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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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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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
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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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It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.
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When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.
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What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.
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Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end.
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See with your ears and hear with your eyes.
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He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
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The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.
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I been away a long time.
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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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