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Quotes from Trip of a Lifetime — Ken Kesey

1935–2001 United States

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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)

What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.

Trip of a Lifetime (1999)

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)

What I always wanted to be was a magician...

Trip of a Lifetime (1999)

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)

The real crazies who are looking for a messiah... after an hour or so they realise I'm not it and go off and look somewhere else.

Trip of a Lifetime (1999)

I have known a lot of people to go down and out — they kill themselves with alcohol or downers. But I've never known anybody to go up and out.

Trip of a Lifetime (1999)

You can't trust the quality any more...

Trip of a Lifetime (1999)

LSD lets you in on something. When you're tripping, the idea of race disappears; the idea of sex disappears; you don't even know what species you are sometimes. And I don't know of anybody who hasn't come back from that being more humane, more thoughtful, more understanding.

Trip of a Lifetime (1999)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ken Kesey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.