Ken Kesey Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I was actually going out of the hospital with two whores on a fishing boat; I had to keep saying it over and over to myself to believe it.
Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
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.
Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.
I'd think, maybe he truly is something extraordinary. He's what he is, that's it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, being what he is.
He knows that there's no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who's trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you're not bothered.
I will be a sonofabitch if he ain't in here at eleven-thirty at night, fartin' around in the dark with a pair of scissors and a paper sack.
The walls are white as the white suits, polished clean as a refrigerator door, and the black face and hands seem to float against it like a ghost.
Mostly, I'd just like to look over the country around the gorge again, just to bring some of it clear in my mind again. I been away a long time.
They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework.
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?
But like always when I try to place my thoughts in the past and hide there, the fear close at hand seeps in through the memory.
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
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.
I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.
Boney Stokes was this oldtime acquaintance of Henry's and figured the best way to pass the time of day was by gradually dying.
There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.
...younger patients, known as 'Acutes' because the doctors figure them still sick enough to be fixed...
Living is the purpose of life,
And meaning can be found therein.
I finds thou.
Thou becomes it.
And it begins again.
And meaning can be found therein.
I finds thou.
Thou becomes it.
And it begins again.
The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon
He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.
The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.