Quotes by Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain. — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed. — Ken Kesey, 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? — Ken Kesey, 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 r — Ken Kesey, 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 t — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The stars up close to the moon were pale they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ru — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quic — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I'm accustomed to being top man. I been a bull goose catskinner for every gyppo logging operation in the Northwest and b — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind.... — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I discovered at an early age that I was - shall we be kind and say different? It's a better, more general word than the — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up. — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I don't think I can give you an answer. Oh, I could give you Freudian reasons with fancy talk, and that would be right a — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tear — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people. — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started acting like I was too — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it mig — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I'd think, maybe he truly is something extraordinary. He's what he is, that's it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, be — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
...I think apparatus burned out all over the ward trying to adjust to her come busting in like she did-took electronic r — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ... — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest