Ken Kesey Quotes
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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.
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If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?
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There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.
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You think I wuh-wuh-wuh-want to stay in here? You think I wouldn't like a con-con-vertible and a guh-guh-girl friend? But did you ever have people l-l-laughing at you? No, because you're so b-big and so tough! Well, I'm not big and tough.
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Later, hiding in the latrine from the black boys, 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.
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'What worries me, Billy,' she said - I could hear the change in her voice - 'is how your mother is going to take this.'
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When people ask me what I think is my best work, it's the bus. There're lots of books, but there's only one bus.
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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
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I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
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Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
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The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.
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You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
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There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
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When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.
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Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.
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I can't help it. I was born a miscarriage. I had so many insults I died. I was born dead. I can't help it.... I'm tired.
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The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
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The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.
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What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.
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But just as soon as we got to the pool he said he did wish something mighta been done, though, and dove into the water.
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'But I tried though,' he says. 'Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?'
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You can't bomb for a humane reason. What we should do is just Mother Teresa them to death with love. It's that old hippie nonsense but it's still the best stuff there is.