One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Randle McMurphy
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Chief Bromden
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Nurse Ratched
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Cheswick
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Billy Bibbit
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Doctor Spivey
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"You're gonna have to start taking this serious."Cheswick Strength
"I just want to do my best."Billy Bibbit Motivation
"A man that won't go along gets along nowhere."Nurse Ratched Power
"I want to be let out of here."Billy Bibbit Freedom
"The Combine is real. It's a huge organization that aims to adjust the Outside as well as she has the Inside."Chief Bromden Power
"You're the first one to ask me that in years."Chief Bromden Kindness
"That's the way this place works. Don't give up the ship."Chief Bromden Perseverance
"I'm not saying I'm not weird. I'm not saying I'm not strange, mysterious, aggressive to the point of violence, but underneath I'm a good person."Randle McMurphy Truth
"Laughter is rebellion in a place that demands silence."Randle McMurphy
"I came here broken, and I'm leaving myself back together piece by piece."Chief Bromden
"A man needs to feel like a man, not like a patient."Billy Bibbit
"Sometimes being crazy is the only sane response to an insane world."Chief Bromden Philosophy
"Card games and bets—that's where real power shows itself."Randle McMurphy Power
"I found my voice again, and nobody can take that from me."Chief Bromden
"They medicate you until you can't remember why you wanted to be free."Cheswick Freedom
"When a man stops fighting, that's when he's truly lost."Randle McMurphy Perseverance
"The small kindness is what separates us from the machinery."Chief Bromden Kindness
"I ain't nobody's fool, and I ain't gonna pretend to be."Randle McMurphy Courage
"Patience is what they want you to have, but patience kills the soul."Randle McMurphy Patience
"The real sickness is accepting what they tell you to accept."Randle McMurphy Truth
"You can't buy dignity, but you sure can lose it easy."Chief Bromden Wisdom
"Once you start believing you're crazy, that's when they got you."Randle McMurphy Faith
"I see things in here that most people never see on the outside."Chief Bromden Knowledge
"A man's worth is measured by how hard he's willing to fight."Randle McMurphy Strength
"They use shame like a weapon in this place."Chief Bromden Justice
"I can't be a man if I can't stand up for myself."Billy Bibbit Courage
"The world don't care if you're crazy or not, long as you pay your debts."Randle McMurphy Philosophy
"She's been breaking men's spirits long before I got here."Chief Bromden Power
"This place runs on routine, and routine is death."Randle McMurphy Life
"When you laugh, you remember who you really are."Randle McMurphy Humor