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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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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 just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.
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Now, you’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus.
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To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs.
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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
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There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.
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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 seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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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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You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
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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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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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The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.
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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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There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what.
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You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself
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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
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Anesthetized time nothing moves and everything is at once.
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You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.
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