Ken Kesey Quotes about Running

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Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train.

Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train.

Ken Kesey

Running, Truth, Train

Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.27, Penguin

Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.

Ken Kesey

Running, Girlfriend, Hurt

Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.128, Hamilton Books

What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot.

Ken Kesey

Running, Years, Guy

Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.7, Hamilton Books

The most work he did on [the urinals] was to run a brush once or twice apiece, singing some song as loud as he could in time to the swishing brush; then he'd splash in some Clorox and he'd be through. ... And when the Big Nurse...came in to check McMurphy's cleaning assignment personally, she brought a little compact mirror and she held it under the rim of the bowls. She walked along shaking her head and saying, "Why, this is an outrage... an outrage..." at every bowl. McMurphy sidled right along beside her, winking down his nose and saying in answer, "No; that's a toilet bowl...a TOILET bowl.

Ken Kesey

Running, Song, Mcmurphy