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  1. Ken Kesey _ Sometimes a Great Notion

    I knew even before we got it rolling that this here was the type asshole that subscribed to magazines like the Nation and Atlantic and probably even read them, and that I didn't stand a snowball's chance against him in an argument; but I was too oiled too keep my mouth shut.
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  2. Ken Kesey _ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's

    you're not going to pull that hen house shit now, are you?"--RP McMurphy
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  3. Ken Kesey _ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's

    Mi lenne itten, ha mindenki akkor állna neki a fogát sikálni, amikor eszébe jut?
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  4. Ken Kesey _ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's

    She got to where she was tripping me and beating me to the floor.
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  5. Ken Kesey _ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's

    I still had my own notions. How McMurphy was a giant come out of the sky to save us from the combine that was networking the land with copper wire and crystal
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  6. Ken Kesey _ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's

    Or, perhaps, the fellows are ill at ease because they didn't stick up for their friend. Perhaps they are feeling guilty for the way they once again let her victimize them into being her interrogators. Cheer up, friends, you've no reason to feel ashamed. It is all as it should be. It's not the rabbit's place to stick up for his fellow. That would have been foolish. No, you were wise, cowardly but wise.
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  7. Ken Kesey _ Sometimes a Great Notion

    Boney Stokes was this oldtime acquaintance of Henry's and figured the best way to pass the time of day was by gradually dying.
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  8. Ken Kesey _ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's

    But I tried, though," he says. "Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?
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  9. Ken Kesey _ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's

    ...living in that foggy, jumbled blur which is a whole lot like the ragged edge of sleep, that gray zone between light and dark, or between sleeping and waking or living and dying, where you know you're not unconscious anymore don't know yet what dayit is or who you are or what's the use of coming back at all...
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  10. Ken Kesey _ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's

    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. I'm give out trying. You got chances. I had so many insults I was born dead. You got it easy. I was born dead an' life was hard. I'm tired. I'm tired out talking and standing up. I been dead fifty-five years.
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  11. Ken Kesey _ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's

    While the pigeons fretted up and down the sidewalk with their hands folded behind their backs.
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  12. Ken Kesey _ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's

    Hell of a life. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Puts a man in one confounded bind, I'd say.
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