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Ken Kesey
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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.
Ken Kesey,
American
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You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Funny
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#People
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Rest
There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#People
#England
Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Being
#Mind
#Talking
Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Time
#First
Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Fascism
I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Thought
#Nixon
I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Christian
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Memory
If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Help
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Ritual
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,
American
Author
#Time
#Revolution
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Eye
#Fire
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Love
#Death
#Past
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Man
Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Writing
#America
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,
American
Author
#Right
#History
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.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Want
#People
#Society
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Love
#People
#Sense
#Emotion
The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Fun
If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Conservative
#Land
To hell with facts! We need stories!
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Hell
The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Lady
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,
American
Author
#God
#Religion
The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Spirit
The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Want
#Consciousness
#Republican
#Integrity
#Christian
The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Trouble
#Heroes
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Truth
#Cruelty
#Mercy
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,
American
Author
#Sun
#Sky
There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Energy
Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#Writing
#Shakespeare
#Lie
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.
Ken Kesey,
American
Author
#World
#First
#Columbus
#Forbidden