Ken Kesey Quotes - Page 2

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• To hell with facts! We need stories.

  Ken Kesey

  Writing, Reality, Needs

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• Always stay in your own movie.

  Ken Kesey

  Independence

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• The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

  Ken Kesey

  Literature, Mercy, Cruelty

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• 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.

  Ken Kesey

  Men, Thinking, Secret

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.42, Hamilton Books

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• See with your ears and hear with your eyes.

  Ken Kesey

  Eye, Loss, Ears

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• I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

  Ken Kesey

  Writing, Famous Writers, Enjoyed

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• The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

  Ken Kesey

  Interesting, Answers, Mystery

  "The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review No. 130, Spring 1994.

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• Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

  Ken Kesey

  Trying, Keep Trying, Trouble

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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.

  Ken Kesey

  Retirement, People, Fabric

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• Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

  Ken Kesey

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Humility

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• I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

  Ken Kesey

  Motivational, Lightning, Literature

  "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe, (Ch. I : Black Shiny FBI Shoes), 1968.

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• The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

  Ken Kesey

  Revenge, Men, Two

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.217, Penguin

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• Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

  Ken Kesey

  Past, Doe, Use

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• No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?

  Ken Kesey

  Ceramics, Rorschach, Psycho

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.122, Hamilton Books

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• Living is the purpose of life,
  And meaning can be found therein.
  I finds thou.
  Thou becomes it.
  And it begins again.

  Ken Kesey

  Purpose, Purpose Of Life, Found

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• I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

  Ken Kesey

  Acting, Deaf, Wanted

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.187, Penguin

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• I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.

  Ken Kesey

  Memories, Sound, Fades

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.84, Hamilton Books

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• 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.

  Ken Kesey

  Real, Men, Doors

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.36, Hamilton Books

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• Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

  Ken Kesey

  Literature, Ritual, Knows

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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.

  Ken Kesey

  Eye, Fire, Waiting

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• But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.

  Ken Kesey

  Mcmurphy, Effort, Trying

  "Fictional character: R.P. McMurphy". One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

  Ken Kesey

  Hero, Phones, Trouble

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• I've found psychedelics to be keys to worlds that have always existed, that have to be talked about.

  Ken Kesey

  Keys, World, Found

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• 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

  Mirrors, Self, Looks

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.82, Hamilton Books

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• You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

  Ken Kesey

  Sunshine, Sky, Appreciate

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