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I can't help it. I was born a miscarriage. I had so many insults I died. I was born dead. I can't help it.... I'm tired.

— Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)

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I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind.

the BBC documentary The Beyond Within: The Rise and Fall of LSD (1987)

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)

I'm so crazy I plan to vote for Eisenhower again this November.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)

But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die.

Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

Kalki Krishnamurthy Sivakozhundu of Tiruvazhundur (1939)

So what if a kid dies? God will take care of him.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev

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