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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 _ 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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  3. Ken Kesey _ Sometimes a Great Notion

    And the forest at night might be beautiful, but if it was dark how was a man to know that?
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  4. Ken Kesey _ Sometimes a Great Notion

    And I lay awake for hours, hoping another phone call would give me that opportunity to be alone and unruffled with her.
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  5. Ken Kesey _ Sometimes a Great Notion

    I love them but I cannot give myself for them.
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  6. Ken Kesey _ Sometimes a Great Notion

    She was saying something but I didn't hear, I ran, leaving her behind, toward my brother . . . leaving her and blindly hoping she might see that I was making it possible to perhaps someday have her. Her or someone.
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  7. Ken Kesey _ Sometimes a Great Notion

    I take my stand behind the human heart, not alongside violence . . ." ... Not be right or wrong or good or bad, just be pulling. In a minute the idiots won't even be listening, they'll just be pulling. They don't have to think. Just be afraid naturally and pulling together. Like specks of mercury rolling into the big piece. Like little specks of mercury rolling into bigger specks and then bigger and then just one piece, and nothing to be scared about or hurt about because you're just a piece of a bigger piece getting bigger rolling across the land into an ocean of mercury . . .
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  8. Ken Kesey _ Sometimes a Great Notion

    Sometimes-after futile all-nights-deserts fill my work-house and smoking sand gets in my eyes . . . and I must split the swollen cabin to check the dawn, to find: the creek still parties with the moon . . . the thrusting pine and whippoorwills still celebrate the sun. It generally works, and things are cool, but sometimes-after cutting out-nothing out there happens but the night. And those days were best forgotten.
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  9. Ken Kesey _ Sometimes a Great Notion

    jokes about anything are now and then bound to cut too close to the truth.
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  10. Ken Kesey _ Sometimes a Great Notion

    Which is just another way of blaming, and perhaps the best way, because there is solace and a certain stoical peace in blaming everything on the rain, and then blaming something as uncontrollable as the rain on something as indifferent as the Arm of the Lord.
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  11. Ken Kesey _ Sometimes a Great Notion

    Even a man who is pure of heart And says his prayers at night May turn to a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the autumn moon is bright.
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  12. Ken Kesey _ Sometimes a Great Notion

    With eyes like he's been to the edge and looked over .
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