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I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!

Ken Kesey

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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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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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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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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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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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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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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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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
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The world news might not be therapeutic.
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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 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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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
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Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
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If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.
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You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
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Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.
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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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What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?
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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
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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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