Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey
Kenneth Elton "Ken" Keseywas an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 September 1935
CityLa Junta, CO
CountryUnited States of America
circles people literature
There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.
life eye cuckoos
They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.
revenge men two
The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.
christian integrity fall
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?
couple rip party
The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin' at it, see, till they rip the chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers. But usually a couple of the flock gets spotted in the fracas, then it's their turn. And a few more gets spots and gets pecked to death, and more and more. Oh, a peckin' party can wipe out the whole flock in a matter of a few hours, buddy, I seen it. A mighty awesome sight. The only way to prevent it—with chickens—is to clip blinders on them. So's they can't see.
pain mcmurphy one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest
But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.
taken love-is doors
For there is always a sanctuary more, a door that can never be forced, a last inviolable stronghold that can never be taken, whatever the attack; your vote can be taken, you name, you innards, or even your life, but that last stonghold can only be surrendered. And to surrender it for any reason other than love is to surrender love.
jesus mean kids
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!
land conservative behinds
If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?
airplane reality wind
The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.
failure facts failing
There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.
literature broke stills
The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
end-of-the-world world ends
What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.
hero men poison
Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.