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
ask best describing living ought people rather stepping work
When people ask what my best work is, it's the bus. I thought you ought to be living your art, rather than stepping back and describing it.
thinking opposites people
If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.
hurt people grass
There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass.
memorable people dumb
But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all
circles people literature
There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.
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.
people guy waiting
What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.
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.
laughing people guy
He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.
character mad people
You, and in fact quite a lot of your generation, have in some way been exiled from that particular sanctuary. It's become almost impossible for someone to "go mad" in the classical sense. At one time people conveniently "went mad" and were never heard from again. Like a character in a romantic novel. But now you are too hip to yourself on a psychological level. You all are too intimate with too many of the symptoms of insanity to be caught completely off your guard.
came period remember
Each little flake that comes off of it, I can remember the period that flake came from.
eisenhower voted
I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower.'' ''Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!'
eisenhower voted voting
''I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower.'' ''Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!''
fat gets lady means prefer takes till whatever
But as Garcia said, you know, the '60s ain't over till the fat lady gets high. And that means that whatever it takes to get you high: sometimes grief, sometimes it's prayer, fasting. I prefer a joint.