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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.
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 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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What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?
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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
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Always stay in your own movie.
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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
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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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