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The Haight is just a place the '60s was a spirit.

Ken Kesey

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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
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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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If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
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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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See with your ears and hear with your eyes.
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The world news might not be therapeutic.
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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. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.
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Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.
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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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I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.
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I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.
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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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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.
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If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?
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Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.
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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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