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Ken Kesey [1935-2001] American

Rank: 101
Author, Novelist

Kenneth Elton "Ken" Kesey was 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.

Love, Death, Funny, Gardening, Good, History, Society, Strength

Quote	Tags	Rank
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.		101
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.		102
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.	Good, Love	103
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.		104
You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.	Funny, Strength	105
Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.		106
There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.	Gardening	107
It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.		108
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.	Death, Love	109
Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.	History	110
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.		111
You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.		112
Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.		113
Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.		114
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.		115
To hell with facts! We need stories!		116
Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.		117
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.	Society	118
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.		119
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.		120
I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.		121
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.		122
The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.		123
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.		124
The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.		125
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.		126
The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.		201
The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.		202
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?		203
Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.		204
When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.		205
The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.		206
I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.		207
If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.		208
The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.		209
There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.		210
If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?		211

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