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Ken Kesey Quotes about Truth

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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

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

Ken Kesey
Truth, Mcmurphy, History
Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.3, Hamilton Books

I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

Ken Kesey
Truth, Lady Macbeth, Sometimes
Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.247, Penguin

I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. 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
Truth, Thinking, Long
Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Penguin

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