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
corn neighbor shovels
You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.
when-you-love-someone forever love-someone
When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.
retirement people fabric
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.
literature spirit
The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.
getting-high literature fats
The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.
eye fire waiting
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
baptism literature want
Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.
grateful light faster
The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive.
oregon rivers looks
Along the western slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range . . . come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River . . .
laughter men laughing
It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
writing famous-writers enjoyed
I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
offering able habit
Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than I can deliver, To be able to deliver what I do.
laughing people guy
He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.
literature ritual knows
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.