“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.”

—  Ken Kesey, book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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

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