Ken Kesey Short Quotes

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I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

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One flew east, One flew west, One flew over the cuckoo's nest.

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

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

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What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.

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Damn, what a sorry-looking outfit. You boys don't look so crazy to me.

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There's no doubt in my mind that McMurphy's won, but I'm not sure what.

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You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.

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More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.

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What keeps us from being monsters are the great artists who teach us to love.

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What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?

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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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To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs...

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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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"But I tried though," he says. "Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?"

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Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.

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You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see...

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The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.

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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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I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

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The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

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When people ask me what I think is my best work, it's the bus. There're lots of books, but there's only one bus.

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But just as soon as we got to the pool he said he did wish something mighta been done, though, and dove into the water.

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I can't help it. I was born a miscarriage. I had so many insults I died. I was born dead. I can't help it.... I'm tired.

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"What worries me, Billy," she said — I could hear the change in her voice — "is how your mother is going to take this."

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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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The real crazies who are looking for a messiah... after an hour or so they realise I'm not it and go off and look somewhere else.

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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.

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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?

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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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