“ One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about t… Ken Kesey
“ Sweeping the dorm soon's it's empty, I'm after dust mice under his bed when I get a smell of something that makes me realize for the first time since I been in the hospital that the big dorm full of b… Ken Kesey
“ He knows that there's no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who's trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you're not bothered. Ken Kesey
“ One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about t… Ken Kesey
“ Cafe Owners are more frustrated than the common laborer, Draeger writes. The common laborer answers only to the foreman; the cafe owner answers to every patron who stops in Ken Kesey
“ You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see... Ken Kesey
“ Cont.. Página 46) O seu rosto negro, bonito, cintilava ali na minha frente. Fiquei boquiaberto, tentando pensar em alguma maneira de responder. Ficamos juntos, enlaçados daquela maneira durante alguns… Ken Kesey
“ Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself. Ken Kesey
“ And then some guy wandering as lost as you would all of a sudden be right before your eyes, his face bigger and clearer than you ever saw a man’s face before in your life. Your eyes were working so ha… Ken Kesey
“ Página 45) A enfermaria zumbe da maneira como ouvi uma fábrica de tecido zumbir uma vez, quando o time de futebol jogou com a escola secundária na Califórnia. Depois de uma boa temporada, s promotores… Ken Kesey
“ They’ve still got their problems, just like all of us. They’re still sick men in lots of ways. But at least there’s that: they are sick men now. No more rabbits, Mack. Maybe they can be well men somed… Ken Kesey
“ In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many! Ken Kesey
“ The way I remember it the tribe got paid some huge amount.That's what they said to him. He said, What can you pay for the way a man lives? He said, What can you pay for the way a man is? They didn't u… Ken Kesey
“ The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon Ken Kesey
“ Out along the dim six-o’clock street, I saw leafless trees standing, striking the sidewalk there like wooden lightning, concrete split apart where they hit, all in a fenced-in ring. An iron line of pi… Ken Kesey
“ 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
