Ken Kesey Quotes
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One flew east, One flew west, One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
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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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To hell with facts! We need stories!
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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
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I got high on psychedelics before I was ever drunk. I never smoked. Then LSD came by. And to me it was the most wonderful thing that had ever happened... And, of course, the best drugs ever were manufactured by the government.
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The real crazies who are looking for a messiah... after an hour or so they realise I'm not it and go off and look somewhere else.
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People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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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?
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You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
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Nothing lasts.
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Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
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The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
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Alla you! Quit bugging me, goddammit!
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You can't trust the quality any more...
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LSD lets you in on something. When you're tripping, the idea of race disappears; the idea of sex disappears; you don't even know what species you are sometimes. And I don't know of anybody who hasn't come back from that being more humane, more thoughtful, more understanding.
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Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
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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.
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God... your book is beautiful!
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It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.