Ken Kesey Quotes

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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Ken Kesey

Love, Good, Sense

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
Ken Kesey

Truth, Mercy, Cruelty

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Ken Kesey

Place, Making, Lead

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
Ken Kesey

Dead, Used, Memory

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?
Ken Kesey

Why, Behind, Land

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.
Ken Kesey

Time, Moving, Revolution

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
Ken Kesey

Between, Trouble, Phone

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
Ken Kesey

Laugh, Lose, Footing

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
Ken Kesey

Help, Problem, Grass

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
Ken Kesey

Sunshine, Sun, Sky

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Ken Kesey

Rather, Lightning, Rod

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
Ken Kesey

Funny, Strong, Until

I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
Ken Kesey

Christian, Head, Acid

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
Ken Kesey

Love, Death, Past

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

Energy, Taking, Ground

Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.
Ken Kesey

Wants, Fascism, Baptism

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
Ken Kesey

Fire, Wait, Patient

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
Ken Kesey

Society, Live, High

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

Broke, Frontiers, Largely

The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.
Ken Kesey

Fun, Taken, Mental

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.
Ken Kesey

Until, High, Fat

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.
Ken Kesey

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

Writing, Lie, Around

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
Ken Kesey

Time, Warrior, Second

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
Ken Kesey

Win, Thought, Used

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: September 17, 1935

Died: November 10, 2001

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