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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.… - Ken Kesey
" "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.
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About Ken Kesey
Kenneth Elton Kesey (17 September 1935 – 10 November 2001) was an American writer, most famous for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as a cultural icon whom some consider a link between the "beat generation" of the 1950s and the "hippies" of the 1960s as a founding member of the Merry Pranksters.
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Kenneth Elton Kesey
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Ken Elton Kesey
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Ken E. Kesey
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O. U. Levon
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