Ken Kesey Quotes: "NEVER GIVE A INCH"
Ken Kesey (17 September 1935 – 10 November 2001) was an American writer, most famous for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as a cultural icon whom some consider a link between the "beat generation" of the 1950s and the "hippies" of the 1960s as a founding member of the Merry Pranksters.
Ken Kesey Quotes:
Ken Kesey Quotes
1. The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
― Ken Kesey
2. Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
― Ken Kesey
3. Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train.
― Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
4. The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.
― Ken Kesey
5. Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
― Ken Kesey
6. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
― Ken Kesey
7. To hell with facts! We need stories!
― Ken Kesey
8. Each little flake that comes off of it, I can remember the period that flake came from.
― Ken Kesey
9. You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
― Ken Kesey
10. People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
― Ken Kesey
11. The hardest man ... is but a shell.
― Ken Kesey
12. I been silent so long now it's gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But please. 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.
― Ken Kesey
13. I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it's so evil ? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it ? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control.
― Ken Kesey
14. I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.
― Ken Kesey
15. Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
― Ken Kesey
16. Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.
― Ken Kesey
17. You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
― Ken Kesey
18. 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
19. Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end.
― Ken Kesey
20. The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.
― Ken Kesey
21. I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered 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
22. 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
23. It's fogging a little, but I won't slip off and hide in it. No...never again...
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
24. I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
― Ken Kesey
25. One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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