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Ken Kesey, né Kenneth Elton Kesey à La Junta le 17 septembre 1935 et mort à Eugene le 10 novembre 2001, est un écrivain américain. Il a écrit Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou , Et quelquefois j'ai comme une grande idée , Sailor Song , Last Go Round , deux pièces de théâtre, dont Twister , et deux livres pour enfants, Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear et The Sea Lion: A Story of the Sea Cliff People.

Son premier roman est adapté au cinéma en 1975 par Miloš Forman sous le même titre, Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou, et interprété par Jack Nicholson et Louise Fletcher. Il a également été adapté pour le théâtre par Dale Wasserman. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. septembre 1935 – 10. novembre 2001  •  Autres noms کن کیسی
Ken Kesey: 103 citations0 J'aime

Ken Kesey: Citations en anglais

“More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.”

Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“But I tried though," he says. "Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?”

Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 11

“I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.”

Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 17
Contexte: Later, hiding in the latrine from the black boys, I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

“But at least I tried”

Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“The world news might not be therapeutic.”

Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and thehave going.”

Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.”

Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“Take what you can use and let the rest go by.”

Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“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.”

Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 5

“God… your book is beautiful!”

Ken Kesey

To Peter Reich on his memoir: A Book of Dreams about his early life and his father Wilhelm Reich.

“But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?”

Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 7

“What worries me, Billy," she said — I could hear the change in her voice — "is how your mother is going to take this.”

Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 29

“I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.”

Ken Kesey

Source: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Ch. 1 : Black Shiny FBI Shoes

“You can't trust the quality any more…”

Ken Kesey

On why he seldom took LSD in his later years.
Trip of a Lifetime (1999)

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