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Ken Kesey was an influential American author best known for his anti-establishment novel 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'. His works often delve into social and political issues, and are celebrated for their unique narrative style and profound insights.

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“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.”

Men Should Looks Reason Shame Forty Dozen

Book:Sometimes a Great Notion

Source: Sometimes a Great Notion

“Along the western slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range . . . come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River . . .”

Looks Rivers Western Range Slopes Hysterical Oregon Coastal

Book:Sometimes a Great Notion

Source: Sometimes a Great Notion

“We made love. How pedestrian the words look-trite, worn, practically featureless with use-but how can one better describe that which happens when it happens? That creation? That magic blending? I might say we became figures in a mesmerized dance before the rocking talisman of the moon, starting slow, so slow... a pair of feathers drifting through clear liquid substance of sky... gradually accelerating, faster and faster and finally into photon existence of pure light... as my whole straining body burst like fluid electricity into hers.”

“The dead's dead ... get 'em in the ground and look to the live ones.”

Book:Sometimes a Great Notion

Source: Sometimes a Great Notion

“All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”

Knows Firsts Looks Whole Bigs Psychology Whole Life One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition

“Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.”

Looks Sometimes

Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself”

Inspirational Looks Might Choices Loses Fronts Painful Relax Fog Strain Human Spirit Losing Yourself

Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition

“I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.”

Looks Self My Own Wonder Mirrors Enormous Manage

Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

About the Author

Born: September 17, 1935
Died: November 10, 2001
Known for: Author
Quotes: 199

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