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I watched and tried to figure out what he would have done. I was only sure of one thing: he wouldn't have left something like that sit there in the day room with his name tacked on it for twenty or thirty years so the Big Nurse could use it as an example of what can happen if you buck the system. I was sure of that.

— 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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