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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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If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.
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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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Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.
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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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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
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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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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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The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
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I been away a long time.
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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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What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?
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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure all the guy had to do was wait.
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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
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It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.
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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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The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.
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