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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
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
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
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
— Ken Kesey
Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.
— Ken Kesey
See with your ears and hear with your eyes.
— Ken Kesey
He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
— Ken Kesey
There is generally one person in every situation you must never underestimate the power of.
— 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
Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.
— Tom Wolfe
Living is the purpose of life,
And meaning can be found therein.
I finds thou.
Thou becomes it.
And it begins again. — Ken Kesey
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
But at least I tried
— 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
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
Good writing ain't necessarily good reading.
— 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
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
She likes a rigged game.
— 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
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
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
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
When I die pin me up against the sky.
— Ken Kesey
To hell with facts! We need stories!
— 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
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
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
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
I've thought of everything, know what I mean?
— 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'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!
— 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
What a cheery atmosphere, don't you agree?
— 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
A Man Is Known By The Mice He Keeps
— 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