329 Quotes by Ken Kesey


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

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    Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way; it overlaps ... as prehistoric ferns grow from bathtub planters.

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

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    You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

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    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.

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

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    Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

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    People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

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