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Ken Kesey Quote: “The walls are white as the white suits, polished clean as a refrigerator door, and the black face and hands seem to float against it like a ghost.”

151. “The walls are white as the white suits, polished clean as a refrigerator door, and the black face and hands seem to float against it like a ghost.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “But like always when I try to place my thoughts in the past and hide there, the fear close at hand seeps in through the memory.”

152. “But like always when I try to place my thoughts in the past and hide there, the fear close at hand seeps in through the memory.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “I still had my own notions. How McMurphy was a giant come out of the sky to save us from the combine that was networking the land with copper wire and crystal.”

153. “I still had my own notions. How McMurphy was a giant come out of the sky to save us from the combine that was networking the land with copper wire and crystal.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “The best of all possible cages.′ Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. ‘What more can one ask?”

154. “The best of all possible cages.′ Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. ‘What more can one ask?”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Chang! With light and sound and numbers round and round in a whirlwind, and maybe you win with what you end up with and maybe you lose and have to play again. Pay the man for another spin, son, pay the man.”

155. “Chang! With light and sound and numbers round and round in a whirlwind, and maybe you win with what you end up with and maybe you lose and have to play again. Pay the man for another spin, son, pay the man.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Reality is greater than the sum of its parts, also a damn sight holier.”

156. “Reality is greater than the sum of its parts, also a damn sight holier.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Does one ever play Coltrane for the uninitiated without subconsciously hoping for the worst?”

157. “Does one ever play Coltrane for the uninitiated without subconsciously hoping for the worst?”

Ken Kesey Quote: “He wants something from me. He doesn’t know that the only thing I have left is the hollow of something gone.”

158. “He wants something from me. He doesn’t know that the only thing I have left is the hollow of something gone.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “All right. Then this is the whole shebang, boys, right here underfoot. Give up and admit it.”

159. “All right. Then this is the whole shebang, boys, right here underfoot. Give up and admit it.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.”

160. “Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “He who- what was it?- walks out of step, hears another drum.”

161. “He who- what was it?- walks out of step, hears another drum.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Leary can get a part of my mind that’s kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.”

162. “Leary can get a part of my mind that’s kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “In the deepening sky where the spearpoint firs scratch the clouds, already a moon – like a cast-off paring from the setting sun. This is Hank’s bell, too.”

163. “In the deepening sky where the spearpoint firs scratch the clouds, already a moon – like a cast-off paring from the setting sun. This is Hank’s bell, too.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “To know a thing you have to trust what you know, and all that you know, and as far as you know in whatever direction your knowing drags you.”

164. “To know a thing you have to trust what you know, and all that you know, and as far as you know in whatever direction your knowing drags you.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “The big, hard body had a tough grip on life. It fought a long time against having it taken away, flailing and thrashing around so much I finally had to lie full length on top of it and scissor the kicking legs with mine while I mashed the pillow into the face. I lay there on top of the body for what seemed days.”

165. “The big, hard body had a tough grip on life. It fought a long time against having it taken away, flailing and thrashing around so much I finally had to lie full length on top of it and scissor the kicking legs with mine while I mashed the pillow into the face. I lay there on top of the body for what seemed days.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.”

166. “The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “They didn’t mind so much when I was a dumb logger and got into a hassle; that’s excusable, they say, that’s a hard-workin’ feller blowing off steam, they say. But if you’re a gambler, if they know you to get up a back-room game now and then, all you have to do is spit slantwise and you’re a goddamned criminal.”

167. “They didn’t mind so much when I was a dumb logger and got into a hassle; that’s excusable, they say, that’s a hard-workin’ feller blowing off steam, they say. But if you’re a gambler, if they know you to get up a back-room game now and then, all you have to do is spit slantwise and you’re a goddamned criminal.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “There’s long spells – three days, years – when you can’t see a thing, know where you are only by the speaker sounding overhead like a bell buoy clanging in the fog. When I can see, the guys are usually moving around as unconcerned as though they didn’t notice so much as a mist in the air. I believe the fog affects their memory some way it doesn’t affect mine.”

168. “There’s long spells – three days, years – when you can’t see a thing, know where you are only by the speaker sounding overhead like a bell buoy clanging in the fog. When I can see, the guys are usually moving around as unconcerned as though they didn’t notice so much as a mist in the air. I believe the fog affects their memory some way it doesn’t affect mine.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Which is just another way of blaming, and perhaps the best way, because there is solace and a certain stoical peace in blaming everything on the rain, and then blaming something as uncontrollable as the rain on something as indifferent as the Arm of the Lord.”

169. “Which is just another way of blaming, and perhaps the best way, because there is solace and a certain stoical peace in blaming everything on the rain, and then blaming something as uncontrollable as the rain on something as indifferent as the Arm of the Lord.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “They wouldn’t be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon had going.”

170. “They wouldn’t be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon had going.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Tata zicea ca, daca nu iei seama, oamenii te silesc, intr-un fel sau altul, sa faci ce socotesc ei ca trebuie sa faci, ori sa te indaratnicesti ca un catar si sa faci toate pe dos, in ciuda lor.”

171. “Tata zicea ca, daca nu iei seama, oamenii te silesc, intr-un fel sau altul, sa faci ce socotesc ei ca trebuie sa faci, ori sa te indaratnicesti ca un catar si sa faci toate pe dos, in ciuda lor.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “And sometimes, as you sing, you cannot help feeling that the unheard echoes and tunes forgotten are echoes of other voices and tunes of other singers... in that kind of world.”

172. “And sometimes, as you sing, you cannot help feeling that the unheard echoes and tunes forgotten are echoes of other voices and tunes of other singers... in that kind of world.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “You can make a mark across the night with the tip of an embered stick, and you can actually see it fixed in its finity. You can be absolutely sure of its treacherous impermanence. And that is all.”

173. “You can make a mark across the night with the tip of an embered stick, and you can actually see it fixed in its finity. You can be absolutely sure of its treacherous impermanence. And that is all.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “She don’t lose on her losses, but she wins on ours. To beat her you don’t have to whip her two out of three or three out of five, but every time you meet. As soon as you let down your guard, as soon as you lose once, she’s won for good. And eventually we all got to lose. Nobody can help that.”

174. “She don’t lose on her losses, but she wins on ours. To beat her you don’t have to whip her two out of three or three out of five, but every time you meet. As soon as you let down your guard, as soon as you lose once, she’s won for good. And eventually we all got to lose. Nobody can help that.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “In the fall when they burn the stubble off the fields the sun gets this dusty hazy color, and the mare’s-tail clouds whipping along near Wakonda Head look like goldenrod bent over by the wind. It’s always real pretty. You can almost hear it ring in the sky.”

175. “In the fall when they burn the stubble off the fields the sun gets this dusty hazy color, and the mare’s-tail clouds whipping along near Wakonda Head look like goldenrod bent over by the wind. It’s always real pretty. You can almost hear it ring in the sky.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “You got to understand that as soon as a man goes to help someone, he leaves himself wide open.”

176. “You got to understand that as soon as a man goes to help someone, he leaves himself wide open.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Sometimes a manipulator’s own ends are simply the actual disruption of the ward for the sake of disruption. There are such people in our society.”

177. “Sometimes a manipulator’s own ends are simply the actual disruption of the ward for the sake of disruption. There are such people in our society.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “A wind came up and broke the sea into green and silver chunks, like a field of glass and chrome, and the boat began to rock and pitch about more... The waves got bigger as we got closer to shore, and from the crests clots of white foam blew swirling up in the wind to join the gulls.”

178. “A wind came up and broke the sea into green and silver chunks, like a field of glass and chrome, and the boat began to rock and pitch about more... The waves got bigger as we got closer to shore, and from the crests clots of white foam blew swirling up in the wind to join the gulls.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “It was strange to hear that voice, soft and soothing and warm as a pillow, coming out of a face hard as porcelain.”

179. “It was strange to hear that voice, soft and soothing and warm as a pillow, coming out of a face hard as porcelain.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “I didn’t say it didn’t make sense, Chief – I just said it was talking crazy.”

180. “I didn’t say it didn’t make sense, Chief – I just said it was talking crazy.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Am I this? Are these mine? These people? These insane people?”

181. “Am I this? Are these mine? These people? These insane people?”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Or, perhaps, the fellows are ill at ease because they didn’t stick up for their friend. Perhaps they are feeling guilty for the way they once again let her victimize them into being her interrogators. Cheer up, friends, you’ve no reason to feel ashamed. It is all as it should be. It’s not the rabbit’s place to stick up for his fellow. That would have been foolish. No, you were wise, cowardly but wise.”

182. “Or, perhaps, the fellows are ill at ease because they didn’t stick up for their friend. Perhaps they are feeling guilty for the way they once again let her victimize them into being her interrogators. Cheer up, friends, you’ve no reason to feel ashamed. It is all as it should be. It’s not the rabbit’s place to stick up for his fellow. That would have been foolish. No, you were wise, cowardly but wise.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “We are victims of a matriarchy here, my friend, and the doctor is just as helpless against it as we are.”

183. “We are victims of a matriarchy here, my friend, and the doctor is just as helpless against it as we are.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Which one of you claims to be the craziest? Which one is the biggest loony? Who runs these card games.”

184. “Which one of you claims to be the craziest? Which one is the biggest loony? Who runs these card games.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “When a man showed up you didn’t want to look at his face and he didn’t want to look at his face and he didn’t want to look at yours, because it’s painful to see somebody so clear that it’s like looking inside him, but then neither did you want to to look away and lose him completely. You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it may be, or you could relax and lose yourself.”

185. “When a man showed up you didn’t want to look at his face and he didn’t want to look at his face and he didn’t want to look at yours, because it’s painful to see somebody so clear that it’s like looking inside him, but then neither did you want to to look away and lose him completely. You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it may be, or you could relax and lose yourself.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “He said, What can you pay for the way a man lives? He said, What can you pay for what a man is? They didn’t understand.”

186. “He said, What can you pay for the way a man lives? He said, What can you pay for what a man is? They didn’t understand.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Now I don’t know what I love any more. I don’t know where the thing I make-pretend leaves off and the thing that’s really there starts up.”

187. “Now I don’t know what I love any more. I don’t know where the thing I make-pretend leaves off and the thing that’s really there starts up.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Boney Stokes was this oldtime acquaintance of Henry’s and figured the best way to pass the time of day was by gradually dying.”

188. “Boney Stokes was this oldtime acquaintance of Henry’s and figured the best way to pass the time of day was by gradually dying.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “I turned, going back along the planks toward the idling pick-up without saying anything else. I just wanted to be away from people. I didn’t want to have to avoid answering questions about what happened. I didn’t want the questions.”

189. “I turned, going back along the planks toward the idling pick-up without saying anything else. I just wanted to be away from people. I didn’t want to have to avoid answering questions about what happened. I didn’t want the questions.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “With eyes like he’s been to the edge and looked over .”

190. “With eyes like he’s been to the edge and looked over .”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Those who had been in on the night started telling about it with a kind of quiet pride and wonder, the way people tell about seeing a big hotel fire or a dam bursting – very solemn and respectful because the casualties aren’t even counted yet – but the longer the telling went on, the less solemn the fellows got.”

191. “Those who had been in on the night started telling about it with a kind of quiet pride and wonder, the way people tell about seeing a big hotel fire or a dam bursting – very solemn and respectful because the casualties aren’t even counted yet – but the longer the telling went on, the less solemn the fellows got.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Is it that?” she asked in a soft voice, once more examining her hands, “not being sure of that ‘someday’? Or is it not being sure of having that ‘somebody’?”

192. “Is it that?” she asked in a soft voice, once more examining her hands, “not being sure of that ‘someday’? Or is it not being sure of having that ‘somebody’?”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Era emerso alla vita per forse un minuto cercando di dirci qualcosa, qualcosa che nessuno di noi si curava di ascoltare o cercava di capire, e lo sforzo lo aveva svuotato.”

193. “Era emerso alla vita per forse un minuto cercando di dirci qualcosa, qualcosa che nessuno di noi si curava di ascoltare o cercava di capire, e lo sforzo lo aveva svuotato.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “He throws the torn paper from his window into the October breeze and returns to bed. He falls asleep watching the little fragment of light vibrate across his wall, thinking how much more efficient it would be filling an hourglass with photons instead of those unruly grains of sand.”

194. “He throws the torn paper from his window into the October breeze and returns to bed. He falls asleep watching the little fragment of light vibrate across his wall, thinking how much more efficient it would be filling an hourglass with photons instead of those unruly grains of sand.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “No. No, listen. They don’t bust you that way; they work on you ways you can’t fight! They put things in! They install things. They start as quick as they see you’re gonna be big and go to working and installing their filthy machinery when you’re little, and keep on and on and on till you’re fixed!”

195. “No. No, listen. They don’t bust you that way; they work on you ways you can’t fight! They put things in! They install things. They start as quick as they see you’re gonna be big and go to working and installing their filthy machinery when you’re little, and keep on and on and on till you’re fixed!”

Ken Kesey Quote: “This kept happening, off and on. It’d be bright for a little bit, everything shining like chrome, waxy-looking, polished, then go dark as muddy water.”

196. “This kept happening, off and on. It’d be bright for a little bit, everything shining like chrome, waxy-looking, polished, then go dark as muddy water.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “And I lay awake for hours, hoping another phone call would give me that opportunity to be alone and unruffled with her.”

197. “And I lay awake for hours, hoping another phone call would give me that opportunity to be alone and unruffled with her.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “But in spite of her efforts to stop the words she can feel some of the need getting through: he doesn’t need me that much, he couldn’t –.”

198. “But in spite of her efforts to stop the words she can feel some of the need getting through: he doesn’t need me that much, he couldn’t –.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “It’s gonna burn me just that way, finally telling about all this, about the hospital, and her, and the guys – and about McMurphy. I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.”

199. “It’s gonna burn me just that way, finally telling about all this, about the hospital, and her, and the guys – and about McMurphy. I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Estar perdido no resulta tan terrible.”

200. “Estar perdido no resulta tan terrible.”

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