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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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La Junta
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Kenneth Elton Kesey
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Independence
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Mr. Bibbit, you might warn this Mr. Harding that I'm so crazy I admit to voting for Eisenhower. Bibbit! You tell Mr. McMurphy I'm so crazy I voted for Eisenhower twice! And you tell Mr. Harding right back — he puts both hands on the table and leans down, his voice getting low — that I'm so crazy I plan to vote for Eisenhower again this November.
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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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He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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See with your ears and hear with your eyes.
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The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.
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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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His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.
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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
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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 do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.
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Then - as he was talking - a set of tail-lights going past lit up McMurphy's face, and the windshield reflected an expression that was allowed only because he figured it'd be too dark for anybody in the car to see, dreadfully tired and strained and frantic, like there wasn't enough time left for something he had to do.
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I been away a long time.
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The Haight is just a place the '60s was a spirit.
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I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
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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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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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What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure all the guy had to do was wait.
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That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.
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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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