Want Quotes by Ken Kesey

9 Want quotes by Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey’s nine brief quotes on Want feel like a quick trip through a mind in motion. The set is small, but each phrase captures the restless energy that fuels rebellion and creativity, ideal for a fast‑fire dose of inspiration.

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“I want to touch him because I'm one of these queers!”

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Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.

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The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him…

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The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you…

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People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of…

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But, gee," the other nurse says, "what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for,…

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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…

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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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No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old…

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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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