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Kenneth Elton Kesey (/ˈkiːziː/; September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) as Ken Kesey was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.

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

Breaking Promises, Energy, Gives, Giving, Ground, Plow

The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive.

Dead, Faster, Grateful, Light

I've found psychedelics to be keys to worlds that have always existed, that have to be talked about.

Found, Keys, Psychedelics, Talked, World

The reverberation often exceeds through silence the sound that sets it off; the reaction occasionally outdoes by way of repose the event that stimulated it; and the past not uncommonly takes a while to happen, and some long time to figure out.

Happen, Long, Past, Silence, Sound

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

Closed, Cuckoos, Eye, Eyes, Life, Tell

Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s "People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense. "

California, Life, Love Is, Pop, Scene, Thinking

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.

Fabric, Falsity, People, Retirement, Society

When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.

Forever, Love, Love Someone, When You Love Someone

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 I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.

Fishing, Night, Say, See, Thing, Years

There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away.

Dozen, Looks, Man, Maybe, Men, Shames

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

Being Strong, See, Side, Stay Strong, Strength, Things

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

Conservative, Conserving, Land, Literature

Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

Keep, Keep Trying, Trouble, Trying, Unscrutable

What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?

Lives, Man, Men, Pay, Way

Since we don't know where we're going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.

Case, Cases, Gets, Sticks, Together

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.

Certain, Moved On, Moving On, Next Steps, Point, Time

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.

Grateful, Homage, Literature, Pay

If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.

Heart, Love, Moments, Motivational, Right, True

I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.

Long, Please, Ranting, Think, Thinking, Truth

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

Christian, Head, Literature, Raised, Stones

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