Quote

Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them.... And women, when confronted by superiors, substitute for drink the crippling liquor of their sex.

Ken Kesey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
La Junta
Colorado
Kenneth Kesey
Kenneth Elton Kesey
Ken Elton Kesey
Ken E. Kesey
O. U. Levon
Upon
Superiors
Confronted
Women
Distinction
Eager
Men
Presses
Liquor
Press
Eliminate
Consider
Thereby
Sex
Substitute
Drink
Substitutes
Forever
Hoping
Crippling

More quotes by Ken Kesey

Image
The Haight is just a place the '60s was a spirit.
Ken Kesey
Image
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.
Ken Kesey
Image
I been away a long time.
Ken Kesey
Image
The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?
Ken Kesey
Image
I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
Ken Kesey
Image
Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.
Ken Kesey
Image
There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.
Ken Kesey
Image
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Ken Kesey
Image
A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance . . . like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything but himself and his dying.
Ken Kesey
Image
We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
Ken Kesey
Image
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
Ken Kesey
Image
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.
Ken Kesey
Image
It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
Ken Kesey
Image
But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
Ken Kesey
Image
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.
Ken Kesey
Image
Always stay in your own movie.
Ken Kesey
Image
What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?
Ken Kesey
Image
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Ken Kesey
Image
There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what.
Ken Kesey
Image
Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Ken Kesey