Ken Kesey quotes - page 2

I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound. (Ken Kesey)
He knows that there's no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who's trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you're not bothered. View quote
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He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people. View quote
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More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face. View quote
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The world news might not be therapeutic. View quote
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The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental. View quote
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Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery. View quote
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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. View quote
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Along the western slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range... come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River... View quote
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What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world. View quote
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The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive. (Ken Kesey)
I been away a long time. View quote
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Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second. View quote
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But if they don't exist, how can a man see them? View quote
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What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait. View quote
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There are going to be times when we cant wait for somebody. Now, youre either on the bus or off the bus. If youre on the bus, and you get left behind, then youll find it again. If youre off the bus in the first placethen it wont make a damn. View quote
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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... View quote
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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. View quote
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High high in the hills, high in a pine tree bed. She's tracing the wind with that old hand, counting the clouds with that old chant, Three geese in a flock one flew east one flew west one flew over the cuckoo's nest. View quote
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Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'. View quote
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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. (Ken Kesey)
The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it. View quote
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But I tried though," he says. "Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I? View quote
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There's something about what we're doing, [which] is that we're meant to lose... every time! We make these foires, write these books and perform this music, but the big juggernaut of civilization continues and we've been kind of brushed to the side, but I think all through history there's been these kind of divine losers that just take a deep breath and go ahead-knowing that society's not going to understand it-and not even caring, because they're having a good time. View quote
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I can't help it. I was born a miscarriage. I had so many insults I died. I was born dead. I can't help it.... I'm tired. View quote
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