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Famous Ken Kesey Quotes
“There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass.”
“You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.”
“Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.”
“The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.”
“When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.”
“The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.”
“I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.”
“The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.”
“You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.”
“Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.”
“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
“There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.”
“The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.”
“Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.”
“There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.”
“What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.”
“Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.”
“He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum”
“But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.”
“He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.”