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First Quotes by Ken Kesey
- There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on…
- Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.
- Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
- When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New…
- Then the trembling starts to get worse. This must be how they begin, he thinks. Freak-outs. Breakdowns. Crack-ups. Eventually shut-ins and finally cross-offs. But first…
- 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…
- I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on…
- But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there…
- Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed…
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