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Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.
Ken Kesey
Fascism
Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
Ken Kesey
Time
First
Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.
Ken Kesey
Being
Mind
Talking
There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.
Ken Kesey
People
England
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
Ken Kesey
Rest
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Ken Kesey
People
You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
Ken Kesey
Funny
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.
Ken Kesey
Columbus
First
Forbidden
World
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
Ken Kesey
Lie
Shakespeare
Writing
There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
Ken Kesey
Energy
You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
Ken Kesey
Sky
Sun
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
Ken Kesey
Truth
Cruelty
Mercy
The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
Ken Kesey
Heroes
Trouble
The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?
Ken Kesey
Christian
Consciousness
Integrity
Republican
Want
The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.
Ken Kesey
Spirit