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Ken Kesey quotes

American Author, Writer September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001

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It's fall coming, I kept thinking, fall coming; just like that was the strangest thing ever happened. Fall. Right outside here it was spring a while back, then it was summer, and now it's fall-that's sure a curious idea. Ken Kesey
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. Ken Kesey
He was in his chair in the corner, resting a second before he came out for the next round -- in a long line of next rounds. The thing he was fighting, you couldn't whip it for good. All you could do was keep on whipping it, till you couldn't come out anymore and somebody else had to take your place. Ken Kesey
He knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance... He knows there's a painful side, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain. Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey quote: "When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to..."
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
I'd give something to see that. Mostly, I'd just 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. Ken Kesey
I'm accustomed to being top man. I been a bull goose catskinner for every gyppo logging operation in the Northwest and bull goose gambler all the way from Korea, was even bull goose pea weeder on that pea farm at Pendleton -- so I figure if I'm bound to be a loony, then I'm bound to be a stompdown dadgum good one. Ken Kesey
They think they know the book by its cover, but the book knows what it is. Now he knew better; if the book never opens up and comes out, it can be warped to fit the image others see.. . .No, a book wasn't invulnerable to the appearance of its cover, not by any means. Ken Kesey
Because sometimes the only way to keep from losing everything is to give everything up. Because sometimes strength must for the sake of winning give in to-- Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey quote: "Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to..."
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye. Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey quote: "you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep the..."
...you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy 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
Ken Kesey quote: "Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'."
Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'. Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey quote: "Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut..."
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
You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you. Ken Kesey

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