I have known a lot of people to go down and out — they kill… - Ken Kesey

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I have known a lot of people to go down and out — they kill themselves with alcohol or downers. But I've never known anybody to go up and out.

Ken Kesey

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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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Alternative Names: Kenneth Kesey • Kenneth Elton Kesey • Ken Elton Kesey • Ken E. Kesey • O. U. Levon

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I have known a lot of people to go down and out — they kill themselves with alcohol or downers. But I've never known anybody to go up and out. - Ken Kesey

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