Ken Kesey quotes - page 5

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high. (Ken Kesey)
The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit. View quote
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I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won. View quote
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To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs. View quote
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One of these days you're going to have a visitation. View quote
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The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. View quote
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Mr. Bibbit, you might warn this Mr. Harding that I'm so crazy I admit to voting for Eisenhower. View quote
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Real warriors like William Burroughs or Leonard Cohen or Wallace Stevens examine the hollow as well as anybody; they get in there, look far into the dark, and yet come out with poetry. View quote
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I like that saying of Thoreau's that "in wildness is the preservation of the world.”. View quote
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He's a real master at getting your old wheel squeaking again. View quote
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I'm not going to talk about that because I've never seen it, except in kids doing stuff that I don't know about and I'm not interested in... I've never taken crack and I've never taken ecstasy; none of us has. I don't want to take some strange drug and end up chewing my tongue for 12 hours. (Ken Kesey)
And nobody had more class than Melville. View quote
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I'm so crazy I plan to vote for Eisenhower again this November. View quote
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Melville took on the whole world, saw it all in a vision, and risked everything in prose that sings. You have a sense from the very beginning that Melville had a vision in his mind of what this book was going to look like, and he trusted himself to follow it through all the way. View quote
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I didn't know what to think and she didn't either, but I was glad she came up to me. View quote
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Kerouac had lots of class - stumbling drunk in the end, but read those last books. He never blames anybody else; he always blames himself. View quote
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This is what I know. The ward is a factory for the Combine. It's for fixing up mistakes made in the neighborhoods and in the schools and in the churches, the hospital is. View quote
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Anytime you have a force that comes along and says, We will eradicate these people, you have evil. View quote
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It's the same old wilderness, just no longer up on that hill or around that bend or in the gully. It's the fact that there is no more hill or gully, that the hollow is there and you've got to explore the hollow with faith. View quote
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What I always wanted to be was a magician... View quote
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There were other books that were being kept, real books. In those real books is the real accounting of your life. (Ken Kesey)
You've got to fight them, but you don't try to exterminate them. View quote
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She worked for the villain and believed in the villain, but she ain't the villain. View quote
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When I see bad-looking bikers with black leather studs on their wrists hanging out at the Oregon Country Fair, I take it as a sign of health. No, I don't want them hanging around, but trying to eliminate them all, arrest them all, legislate against them all - that's evil. View quote
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But all of us know that's not what is supposed to be in that hole. View quote
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