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Always stay in your own movie.

Ken Kesey

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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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La Junta
Colorado
Kenneth Kesey
Kenneth Elton Kesey
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Ken E. Kesey
O. U. Levon
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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
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You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
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I been away a long time.
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You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
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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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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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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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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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To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs.
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Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.
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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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I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
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I've never seen crack or a lot of these new drugs. Don't know anything about them. I don't know what they do for you, or whether they do anything good for you or not. But I do still have a lot of faith in the spiritual purity of LSD and pot.
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There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus.
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See with your ears and hear with your eyes.
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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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