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Ken Kesey Quotes: 9

  • Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

  • The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • 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.

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • It's the truth, even if it didn't happen......if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest