The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
- Ken Kesey
Grateful, Other, Pay, Grateful Dead
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, Sunshine, Otherwise, Shining
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
Mind, Kind, Shut, Grinding
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
New, Other, Discovered, New World
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
- Ken Kesey
Memory, Dead, Been, Holes
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
- Ken Kesey
Wait, Audience, Deal, Be Patient
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
Some, Making, Telling, Case
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
Republican, Consciousness, Dude
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
- Ken Kesey
Man, Lose, Your, Laugh
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
- Ken Kesey
Truth, Cruelty, Mercy
Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.
- Ken Kesey
Baptism, Wants, Coast, Fascism
Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
- Ken Kesey
About, Norman Mailer, Norman
Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.
- Ken Kesey
Squirrel, Ever, Piece, Intricate
It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.
- Ken Kesey
Next, Move, Certain Point, Next Step
The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.
- Ken Kesey
Heroes, Phone, Super, Between
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
- Ken Kesey
Love, Think, Emotion, Love Is
There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
- Ken Kesey
Gardening, New, Plow, Energy
People 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 Kesey
Want, Other, Might, Falsity
If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
- Ken Kesey
Help, Problem, Would, Grass
The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.
- Ken Kesey
Fun, Mental, Taken, Fundamentalists
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, Move, Around, Shakespeare
There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.
- Ken Kesey
England, Understand, Lot, Enigma
The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
- Ken Kesey
Broke, Still, Frontiers, Unexplored
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
- Ken Kesey
Love, Loved, In The Past, Tense
When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.
- Ken Kesey
Part, Rendezvous, Whole, Tribal
The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.
- Ken Kesey
Fat, Over, High, Gets
Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
- Ken Kesey
Warrior, Goes, Allen, Poet
I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
- Ken Kesey
Christian, Head, Acid, I Was Raised
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
Burn, Flag, Been, Destroy
To hell with facts! We need stories!
- Ken Kesey
Hell, Need, Stories, Facts
I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
- Ken Kesey
Thought, Think, Nixon, Won
You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
- Ken Kesey
Strength, Strong, See, Be Strong
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
- Ken Kesey
Know, Necessary, Us, Ritual
If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?
- Ken Kesey
Conservative, Behind, Why, Land
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
- Ken Kesey
Lightning, Rather, Than, Rod
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
- Ken Kesey
Rest, Go, Take, Use
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