329 Quotes by Ken Kesey

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    Chang! With light and sound and numbers round and round in a whirlwind, and maybe you win with what you end up with and maybe you lose and have to play again. Pay the man for another spin, son, pay the man.

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    The ’60s aren’t over; they won’t be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

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    No one’s ever dared come out and say it before, but there’s not a man among us that doesn’t think it, that doesn’t feel just as you do about her and the whole business – feel it somewhere down deep in his scared little soul.

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    Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s “People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense.”

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    I’ve never seen crack or a lot of these new drugs. Don’t know anything about them. I don’t know what they do for you, or whether they do anything good for you or not. But I do still have a lot of faith in the spiritual purity of LSD and pot.

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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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    When you’re around the whole Dead scene, they’re there as a tribal thing; they’re there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.

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    Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It’s intricate.

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    If you’re a Conservative, why aren’t you behind conserving the land?

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