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Ken KeseyPeople 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 KeseyShe asked if we were calm enough for her to take off the cuffs, and McMurphy nodded. He had slumped over with his head hung and his elbows between his knees and looked completely exhausted--it hadn't occurred to me that it was just as hard for him to stand straight as it was for me.
Ken KeseyNo one's ever dared come out and say it before, but there's not a man among us that doesn't think it, that doesn't feel just as you do about her and the whole business - feel it somewhere down deep in his scared little soul.
Ken KeseyI been silent so long now itโs 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. Itโs still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But itโs the truth even if it didnโt happen.
Ken Kesey