“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
Author detail
KEN KESEY was born in La Junta, Colorado, but his family later moved to Springfield, Oregon, where he attended public schools, and later the University of Oregon at Eugene. He has received the Woodrow Wilson scholarship to Stanford University and a Saxton Fellowship, and won the Fred Lowe Scholarship awarded to the outstanding wrestler in the Northwest. Mr. Kesey was king of the Merry Pranksters, a group which traveled the West Coast staging happenings; as a leader of this group, Mr. Kesey appeared as subject and star in the bestseller, THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST, by Tom Wolfe. At present he is "scratching his athlete's foot on his farm in Oregon, watching his kids and blueberries grow." Photo: By <span title="must have been published or publicly displayed outside Wikipedia">Source</span> (<a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content_criteria#4" title="Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria">WP:NFCC#4</a>), <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ken_Kesey,_American_author,_1935-2001.jpg" title="Fair use of copyrighted material in the context of Ken Kesey">Fair use</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54571568">Link</a>
Quotes
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“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
“They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.”
“It's the truth, even if it didn't happen... ...if they don't exist, how can a man see them?”
“I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened,...”
“When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, because it's painful to see somebody so clear that it's l...”
“We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that com...”
“The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon”
“He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating.”
“I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.”
“Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.”
“Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.”
“The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.”
“When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.”
“If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?”
“There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.”
“People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.”
“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
“The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.”
“The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?”
“The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.”