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Ken Kesey

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He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.


— Ken Kesey


#psychology #psychology

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself


— Ken Kesey


#life #perspective #strength #life

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.


— Ken Kesey


#marketing

This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.


— Ken Kesey


#life #life

To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ...


— Ken Kesey


#imagination

Billy here has been talkin' about slicin' his wrists again, so is there seven of you guys who'd like to join him and make it therapeutic?


— Ken Kesey


#humor #nest #humor

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.


— Ken Kesey


#realism-truth #reflection #faith

...you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy


— Ken Kesey


#inspirational

He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things.


— Ken Kesey


#strength-and-courage #strong #courage

Okay, stand outa the way. Sometimes when I go to exertin' myself I use up all the air nearby and grown men faint from suffocation.


— Ken Kesey


#men






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Experimentation with psychoactive drugs
At the instigation of Perry Lane neighbor and Stanford psychology graduate student Vik Lovell (heretofore acquainted with Richard Alpert and Allen Ginsberg) Kesey volunteered to take part in a CIA-financed study under the aegis of Project MKULTRA at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital where he worked as a night aide. In 1997 health problems began to take their toll starting with a stroke that year. as a threat to civilization and intellectualism and sobriety" and rejected Kesey's Stegner Fellowship applications for the 1959-60 and 1960-61 terms.

: /ˈkiːziː/; September 17 1935 – November 10 2001) was an American author best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) and as a counter-cultural figure who considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. Kenneth Elton "Ken" Kesey (pron.

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