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Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
Ken Kesey
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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.
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But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?
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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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Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than I can deliver, To be able to deliver what I do.
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When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.
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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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I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
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Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.
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It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.
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