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
reflection men failing
Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.
crazy men thinking
You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see...
men thinking feels-just
No one's ever dared come out and say it before, but there's not a man among us that doesn't think it, that doesn't feel just as you do about her and the whole business - feel it somewhere down deep in his scared little soul.
real men doors
But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
powerful men thinking
Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?
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.
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.
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.
men pay way
What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?
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.
believe men bigs
I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!
men nurse missing
But, gee," the other nurse says, "what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What possible motive...?""You seem to forget, MISS Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
life men ifs
But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?
revenge men two
The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.