Humor Quotes by Ken Kesey

9 Humor quotes by Ken Kesey

Kesey’s counter‑culture narratives often burst with absurdity; this brief set pulls out the moments where his humor feels wild and free.

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“I'll trim you babies like little lambs”

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It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your…

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But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.

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“But a system made secure by the protective plating of humor and pretense always runs the risk of having its protection get…

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“He knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance... He knows there's a…

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Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep…

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“Win or lose, the crows always laughed--the hard, old jaded laughter that came of looking at the world with a black and…

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“That aunt of mine; boy, she used to wear make-up all week long so terrible thick that - well, she started about…

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“While McMurphy laughs. Rocking farther and farther backward against the cabin top,spreading his laugh across the water. Laughing at the girl,at the…

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“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has…

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The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive.

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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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