Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Ken Kesey
- All I know is this: nobody’s very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.
- He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.
- If you don’t watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.
- That ain’t me, that ain’t my face. It wasn’t even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn’t even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.
- What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin’? Well you’re not! You’re not! You’re no crazier than the average asshole out walkin’ around on the streets and that’s it.
- 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.
- 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.
- I don’t think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.
- 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.
- 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 (1935-2001) was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure. He was born in La Junta, Colorado, and grew up in Springfield, Oregon. He attended Stanford University, where he studied creative writing and experimented with psychedelic drugs.
In 1962, Kesey published his first novel, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” which was a critical and commercial success and won the 1963 National Book Award for Fiction. The novel was later adapted into a play and a movie, starring Jack Nicholson.
Kesey became associated with the Merry Pranksters, a group of countercultural figures who traveled across the United States in a psychedelic bus, promoting the use of LSD and other mind-altering substances. This experience inspired Kesey’s second novel, “Sometimes a Great Notion” (1964), which was also highly regarded.
Kesey continued to write and publish throughout his life, and also became involved in environmental and political activism. He passed away in 2001 due to complications from surgery for liver cancer. His influence on American literature and counterculture continues to be felt to this day.
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