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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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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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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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The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.
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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
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I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.
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But, gee, the other nurse says, what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What possible motive...?You seem to forget, MISS Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.
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Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.
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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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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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You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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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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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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I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
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Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end.
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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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Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
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It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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