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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
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Ken Kesey: Citations en anglais

“NEVER GIVE A INCH!”

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Ken Kesey livre Sometimes a Great Notion

Sometimes a Great Notion (1964)

“I watched and tried to figure out what he would have done. I was only sure of one thing: he wouldn't have left something like that sit there in the day room with his name tacked on it for twenty or thirty years so the Big Nurse could use it as an example of what can happen if you buck the system. I was sure of that.”

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Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

"Chief, in Ch. 29
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)

“It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.”

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Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 1

“But just as soon as we got to the pool he said he did wish something mighta been done, though, and dove into the water.”

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Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 18

“One flew east, One flew west, One flew over the cuckoo's nest.”

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Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

A children's folk rhyme quoted in the front pages of the book.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)

“I thought for a minute there I saw her whipped. Maybe I did. But I see now that it don't make any difference…. To beat her you don't have to whip her two out of three or three out of five, but every time you meet. As soon as you let down your guard, as soon as you lose once, she's won for good. And eventually we all got to lose. Nobody can help that.”

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Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 9

“Damn, what a sorry-looking outfit. You boys don't look so crazy to me.”

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Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 1

“You can't bomb for a humane reason. What we should do is just Mother Teresa them to death with love. It's that old hippie nonsense but it's still the best stuff there is.”

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Ken Kesey

Trip of a Lifetime (1999)

“The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive.”

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Ken Kesey

Inside cover of "The Grateful Dead" LP (1967)

“They're out there.
Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them.”

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Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

First lines, Ch. 1
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)

“The real crazies who are looking for a messiah… after an hour or so they realise I'm not it and go off and look somewhere else.”

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Trip of a Lifetime (1999)

“I been away a long time.”

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Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

"Chief, in Ch. 29
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)

“Alla you! Quit bugging me, goddammit!”

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Ken Kesey livre One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 21

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