Ken Kesey

"But I remember 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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"But I remember 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."

Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

"He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people."

Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

"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 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

"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 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

"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 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

"“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 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

"They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed."

Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

"“They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.”"

Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

"There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy."

Ken Kesey

"The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy."

Ken Kesey

"Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself."

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

"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

"You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things."

Ken Kesey

"People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense."

Ken Kesey

"Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all."

Ken Kesey

"You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to the world from running you plumb crazy"

Ken Kesey

"Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies."

Ken Kesey

"To hell with facts! We need stories!"

Ken Kesey

"“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”"

Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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