You’re just a young kid. What are you doin’ here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why… bird-doggin’ chicks and bangin’ beaver. What are ya doin’ here, for Christ’s sake? What’s funny about that? Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothin’ but complain about how you can’t stand it in this place here and then you haven’t got the guts just to walk out!

Ken Kesey

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Since we don't know where we're going, we have to stick together... by Ken Kesey

Since we don't know where we're going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.

cases sticks together

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, but 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.

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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.

believe reality thinking

When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love... by Ken Kesey

When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.

love-someone when-you-love-someone forever

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. by Ken Kesey

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

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If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.

moments heart motivational

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.

inspirational life world

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.

psychology looks firsts

You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold.

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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.

leadership inspiring motivational

The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. by Ken Kesey

The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

mystery answers needs

You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many a... by Ken Kesey

You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. by Ken Kesey

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

educational love philosophy

To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical... smoke grass.

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The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.

kissing powerful jobs

He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum by Ken Kesey

He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum

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There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass. by Ken Kesey

There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass.

hurt grass people

It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give of... by Ken Kesey

It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.

offense giving

There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus.

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See with your ears and hear with your eyes. by Ken Kesey

See with your ears and hear with your eyes.

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