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Ken Kesey quotes

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

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Ken Kesey quote: "I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my..."
I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound. Ken Kesey
...I think apparatus burned out all over the ward trying to adjust to her come busting in like she did-took electronic readings on her and calculated they weren't built to handle something like this on the ward, and just burned out, like machines committing suicide. Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey quote: "They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed."
They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed. Ken Kesey
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? Ken Kesey
She asked if we were calm enough for her to take off the cuffs, and McMurphy nodded. He had slumped over with his head hung and his elbows between his knees and looked completely exhausted--it hadn't occurred to me that it was just as hard for him to stand straight as it was for me. Ken Kesey
. . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words. Ken Kesey
I will be a sonofabitch if he ain't in here at eleven-thirty at night, fartin' around in the dark with a pair of scissors and a paper sack. Ken Kesey
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. Ken Kesey
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. Ken Kesey
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 Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey quote: "But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll..."
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
turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. my sound soaks up all other sound. Ken Kesey
But the new guy is different, and the Acutes can see it, different from anybody been coming on this ward for the past ten years, different from anybody they ever met outside. He's just as vulnerable, maybe, but the Combine didn't get him. Ken Kesey
I'd think, 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 then; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted. It don't seem like I ever have been me. Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey quote: "You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not..."
You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see... Ken Kesey

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