Ken Kesey Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

  Ken Kesey

  Love, Philosophy, Educational

• 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 World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

  Ken Kesey

  Powerful, Ghouls, Firsts

• To hell with facts! We need stories.

  Ken Kesey

  Writing, Reality, Needs

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

  Ken Kesey

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.123, Hamilton Books

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

  Ken Kesey

  Literature, Mercy, Cruelty

• Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

  Ken Kesey

  Literature, Ritual, Knows

• The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.

  Ken Kesey

  Grateful, Literature, Pay

• I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

  Ken Kesey

  Motivational, Lightning, Literature

  "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe, (Ch. I : Black Shiny FBI Shoes), 1968.

• 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

  Lying, Moving, Writing

• Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.

  Ken Kesey

  Squirrels, Pieces, Literature

• Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.

  Ken Kesey

  Talking, Mind, Literature

  "Comes Spake the Cuckoo". Far Gone Interview with Todd Brendan Fahey, September 13, 1992.

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

  Ken Kesey

  Literature, Spirit

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

  Ken Kesey

  Eye, Fire, Waiting

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

  Ken Kesey

  Getting High, Literature, Fats

• 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

  Retirement, People, Fabric

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

  Ken Kesey

  Christian, Literature, Stones

• Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.

  Ken Kesey

  Baptism, Literature, Want

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

  Ken Kesey

  Literature, Broke, Stills

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

  Ken Kesey

  Drug, Literature, Helping

• Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

  Ken Kesey

  Writing, America, Get Better

• The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?

  Ken Kesey

  Christian, Integrity, Fall

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

  Ken Kesey

  Land, Literature, Conservative

• There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

  Ken Kesey

  Circles, People, Literature

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