Guy Quotes by Ken Kesey

9 Guy quotes by Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey offers nine reflective passages about the "Guy," channeling his counter‑cultural voice and lyrical prose. The excerpts provide a concise, thought‑provoking glimpse into his take on the everyday figure.

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What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

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He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

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Billy here has been talkin' about slicin' his wrists again, so is there seven of you guys who'd like to join him…

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Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might…

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What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in,…

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I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is…

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You’re just a young kid. What are you doin’ here? You oughta be out in a convertible, why… bird-doggin’ chicks and bangin’…

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All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked…

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I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing…

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“Okay, stand outa the way. Sometimes when I go to exertin' myself I use up all the air nearby and grown men faint from…

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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.

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There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

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

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Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

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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…

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But if the strength ain't real, I recall thinking the very last thing that day, before I finally passed out, then the weakness sure…

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“They think they know the book by its cover, but the book knows what it is. Now he knew better; if the book never…

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More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.

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If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is…

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“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…

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When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

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“And then some guy wandering as lost as you would all of a sudden be right before your eyes, his face bigger and clearer…

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