Ken Kesey quotes - page 4

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma. (Ken Kesey)
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
Ken Kesey
If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
Ken Kesey
Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.
Ken Kesey
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
Ken Kesey
Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
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When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.
Ken Kesey
I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
Ken Kesey
Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
Ken Kesey
Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.
Ken Kesey
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything. (Ken Kesey)
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.
Ken Kesey
Damn, what a sorry-looking outfit. You boys don't look so crazy to me.
Ken Kesey
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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God... your book is beautiful!
Ken Kesey
When people ask me what I think is my best work, it's the bus. There're lots of books, but there's only one bus.
Ken Kesey
I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.
Ken Kesey
There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
Ken Kesey
If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?
Ken Kesey
The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
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The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude? (Ken Kesey)
We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
Ken Kesey
The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
Ken Kesey
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
Ken Kesey
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
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