Ken Kesey Quotes - Page 7

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• - he's finished with that; it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm bell rusted silent, an old worthless clock that just keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.

  Ken Kesey

  Hands, Numbers, Alarms

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.28, Hamilton Books

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• Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end.

  Ken Kesey

  Ocean, Beats, Ends

  Ken Kesey (2003). “Kesey's Jail Journal: Cut the M************ Loose”, Viking Press

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• No one's ever dared come out and say it before, but there's not a man among us that doesn't think it, that doesn't feel just as you do about her and the whole business - feel it somewhere down deep in his scared little soul.

  Ken Kesey

  Men, Thinking, Feels Just

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.32, Hamilton Books

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• Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.

  Ken Kesey

  Time, Moving

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.50, Penguin

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• They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

  Ken Kesey

  Life, Eye, Cuckoos

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.1, Hamilton Books

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• What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.

  Ken Kesey

  World, End Of The World, Ends

  The Sun Times (South Africa), August 29, 1999.

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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.

  Ken Kesey

  Truth, Thinking, Long

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Penguin

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• I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!

  Ken Kesey

  Voting, Insane, Yeah

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• Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.

  Ken Kesey

  Squirrels, Pieces, Literature

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• Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.

  Ken Kesey

  Hero, Men, Saint

  Ken Kesey (1965). “Sometimes a great notion”

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• I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.

  Ken Kesey

  Christian, Literature, Stones

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• There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

  Ken Kesey

  Circles, People, Literature

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• Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.

  Ken Kesey

  Drug, Important, Criminals

  Source: theodorecarter.com

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• You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.

  Ken Kesey

  Missing, Insane, Forget

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.13, Hamilton Books

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• Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them.... And women, when confronted by superiors, substitute for drink the crippling liquor of their sex.

  Ken Kesey

  Sex, Women, Forever

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