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
literature ritual knows
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
people trying cuckoos
That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.
men thinking secret
The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.
laughing people guy
He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.
truth mcmurphy history
But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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.
thinking hands two
He's got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get loose and glide around in front of him free as two white birds until he notices them and traps them between his knees; it bothers him that he's got pretty hands.
crazy thinking average
What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.
hero phones trouble
The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
when-you-love-someone forever love-someone
When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.
running truth train
Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train.
men looks dozen
There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away.
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.
bus
Now, you’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus.