“They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and thehave going.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel written by Ken Kesey. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind as well as a critique of behaviorism and a tribute to individualistic principles. It was adapted into the Broadway play One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman in 1963. Bo Goldman adapted the novel into a 1975 film directed by Miloš Forman, which won five Academy Awards.
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?”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 11
“To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs…”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 17
Context: 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.
“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 5
Context: Maybe not you, buddy, but the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
“More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 5
“But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 7
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 29
