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You must go through a winter to understand. — Ken Kesey

You're either on the bus or off the bus. — Ken Kesey

Always stay in your own movie. — Ken Kesey

They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon have going. — Ken Kesey

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won. — Ken Kesey

The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored. — Ken Kesey

You can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things. — Ken Kesey

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. — Ken Kesey

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed. — Ken Kesey

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second. — Ken Kesey

When a guy's getting screwed he's got a right to holler. And we've been damn well screwed. — Ken Kesey

God looks out for fools and niggers. — Ken Kesey

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing. — Ken Kesey

In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many! — Ken Kesey

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously. — Ken Kesey

Take what you can use and let the rest go by. — Ken Kesey

Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'. — Ken Kesey

It's fogging a little, but I won't slip off and hide in it. No ... never again ... — Ken Kesey

See with your ears and hear with your eyes. — Ken Kesey

He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum — Ken Kesey

Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols. — Tom Wolfe

Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again. — Ken Kesey

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. — Ken Kesey

There is generally one person in every situation you must never underestimate the power of. — Ken Kesey

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

Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another. — Ken Kesey

They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework. — Ken Kesey

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit. — Ken Kesey

Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable. — Ken Kesey

It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense. — Ken Kesey

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 — Ken Kesey

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy. — Ken Kesey

There's nothing worse for a forest than to have all the trees be the same — Ken Kesey

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye. — Ken Kesey

Rules? PISS ON YOUR FUCKING RULES! — Ken Kesey

Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery. — Ken Kesey

She likes a rigged game. — Ken Kesey

Good writing ain't necessarily good reading. — Ken Kesey

Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate. — Ken Kesey

I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind.... — Ken Kesey

I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary." — Ken Kesey

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. — Ken Kesey

Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end. — Ken Kesey

Ah, ah, ahhh ... first one gets mad, then one goes mad — Ken Kesey

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. — Ken Kesey

They're out there...One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — Ken Kesey

The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive. — Ken Kesey

Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking. — Ken Kesey

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all. — Ken Kesey

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down. — Ken Kesey

He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things. — Ken Kesey

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

He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people. — Ken Kesey

Billy here has been talkin' about slicin' his wrists again, so is there seven of you guys who'd like to join him and make it therapeutic? — Ken Kesey

I've thought of everything, know what I mean? — Ken Kesey

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. — Ken Kesey

My friend, that, as anyone can see, is not a hotel; it's a depot. — Ken Kesey

He who walks out of step hears another drum. — Ken Kesey

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around. — Ken Kesey

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

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. — Ken Kesey

Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast. — Ken Kesey

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. — Ken Kesey

I been away a long time. — Ken Kesey

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves. — Ken Kesey

When I die pin me up against the sky. — Ken Kesey

To hell with facts! We need stories! — Ken Kesey

Boney Stokes was this oldtime acquaintance of Henry's and figured the best way to pass the time of day was by gradually dying. — Ken Kesey

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

There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried. — Ken Kesey

I noticed vaguely that I was getting so's I could see
some good in the life around me. — Ken Kesey

Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp. — Roy Kesey

I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE! — Ken Kesey

What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world. — Ken Kesey

... and if I don't have her to where she don't know whether to shit or go blind, the bet is yours. — Ken Kesey

...younger patients, known as 'Acutes' because the doctors figure them still sick enough to be fixed... — Ken Kesey

And the redwinged blackbirds sing in the budding greengage plumtree. — Ken Kesey

The trouble with superheroes is what to do between phone booths. — Ken Kesey

You get your visions through whatever gate you're granted. — Ken Kesey

What a Life: Give some of us pills to stop a fit, give the rest shock to start one. — Ken Kesey

The game goes round and round, to the rattle of dice and the shuffle of play money. — Ken Kesey

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

The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful. — Ken Kesey

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes ... I see ... — Ken Kesey

All right. Then this is the whole shebang, boys, right here underfoot. Give up and admit it. — Ken Kesey

The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental. — Ken Kesey

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land? — Ken Kesey

A Man Is Known By The Mice He Keeps — Ken Kesey

He's safe as long as he can laugh, he thinks, and it works pretty fair. — Ken Kesey

What a cheery atmosphere, don't you agree? — Ken Kesey

When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all. — Ken Kesey

You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep in balance. [Chief Bromden] — Ken Kesey

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. — Ken Kesey

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

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high. — Ken Kesey

You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel. — Ken Kesey

There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass. — Ken Kesey

But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that. — Ken Kesey

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? — Ken Kesey

They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them. — Ken Kesey