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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
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Ken Kesey |
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It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world...by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.
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existence
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Ken Kesey |
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14e131e
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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.
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Ken Kesey |
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21e2f0f
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But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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on-fiction
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Ken Kesey |
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03a3ef9
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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.
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Ken Kesey |
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5c3ba18
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If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.
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Ken Kesey |
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46eb3ad
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Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?
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Ken Kesey |
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52aee53
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That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.
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Ken Kesey |
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39359d3
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What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.
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Ken Kesey |
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df63cc5
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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
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visual
observation
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Ken Kesey |
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a1e0c4e
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Rules? PISS ON YOUR FUCKING RULES!
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Ken Kesey |
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7f251e5
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He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum
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Ken Kesey |
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d9546b3
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They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.
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philosophy
wisdom
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Ken Kesey |
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247afcb
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This world . . . belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf is the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides ..
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Ken Kesey |
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3c92f9c
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We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.
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Ken Kesey |
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7ed6523
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Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.
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Ken Kesey |
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40988e5
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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?
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Ken Kesey |
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a062275
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You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself
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strength
life
perspective
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Ken Kesey |
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0054288
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But he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.
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pain
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Ken Kesey |
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ec94615
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What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.
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Ken Kesey |
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5e16dd6
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I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.
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Ken Kesey |
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3784169
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He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things.
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strong
strength-and-courage
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Ken Kesey |
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b347a79
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I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.
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Ken Kesey |
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cf2d8e8
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I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.
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Ken Kesey |
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fb5e5fe
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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.
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one-flew-over-the-cuckoo-s-nest
bother
ken-kesey
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Ken Kesey |
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ee30340
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Look...Reality is greater than the sum of its parts, also a damn sight holier. And the lives of such stuff as dreams are made of may be rounded with a sleep but they are not tied neatly with a red bow. Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train, though time may run on truth. And the Scenes Gone By and the Scenes to Come flow blending together in the sea-green deep while Now spreads in circles on the surface. So don't sweat it. For focu..
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Ken Kesey |
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827ac35
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What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot.
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Ken Kesey |
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4399893
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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.
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Ken Kesey |
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b3cf75e
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To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ...
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Ken Kesey |
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967d287
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He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.
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psychology
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Ken Kesey |
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0083921
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I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.
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Ken Kesey |
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dfda346
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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.
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Ken Kesey |
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eb44bfd
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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
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Ken Kesey |
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0decb41
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But at least I tried
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Ken Kesey |
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72bb639
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Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys...
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Ken Kesey |
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3238365
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Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true.
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Ken Kesey |
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a4a831e
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The world news might not be therapeutic.
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Ken Kesey |
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0180d3c
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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.
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Ken Kesey |
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dad129a
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More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.
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Ken Kesey |
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7a2fbb3
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For there is always a sanctuary more, a door that can never be forced, a last inviolable stronghold that can never be taken, whatever the attack; your vote can be taken, you name, you innards, or even your life, but that last stonghold can only be surrendered. And to surrender it for any reason other than love is to surrender love.
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Ken Kesey |
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b2edbe0
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This world... belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.
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life
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Ken Kesey |
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b2c9aa5
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I been silent so long now it's gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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Ken Kesey |
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2f0cbba
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They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and the have going.
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Ken Kesey |
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407da28
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Because he knows 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.
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Ken Kesey |