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Nurse Ratched: If Mr. McMurphy doesn't want to take his medication orally, I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way.

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More quotes by Ken Kesey

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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