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KKKen Kesey1935–2001

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Ken Kesey

American novelist

1935–2001

7 quotes, most often on Writing.

You can’t bomb for a humane reason. What we should do is just Mother Teresa them to death with love. It’s that old hippie nonsense but it’s still the best stuff there is.
Trip of a Lifetime (1999)
- Love
- War & Peace
The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.
The Paris Review interview (1994)
- Writing
Doing magic, you not only have to be able to do a trick, you have to have a little story line to go with it. And writing is essentially a trick.
Trip of a Lifetime (1999)
- Writing
I’d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
As quoted in Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Ch. 1: “Black Shiny FBI Shoes”
When people ask me what I think is my best work, it’s the bus. There’re lots of books, but there’s only one bus.
Trip of a Lifetime (1999)
- Art
- Writing
Real warriors like William Burroughs or Leonard Cohen or Wallace Stevens examine the hollow as well as anybody; they get in there, look far into the dark, and yet come out with poetry.
The Paris Review interview (1994)
- Courage
- Poetry
Now, you’re either on the bus or off the bus. If you’re on the bus, and you get left behind, then you’ll find it again. If you’re off the bus in the first place — then it won’t make a damn.
As quoted in Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), ch. 6
- Decisions

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