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There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.

— Ken Kesey The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)

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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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