# Quote — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

> This is what I know. The ward is a factory for the Combine. It's for fixing up mistakes made in the neighborhoods and in the schools and in the churches, the hospital is. When a completed product goes back out into society, all fixed up good as new, better than new sometimes, it brings joy to the Big Nurse's heart; something that came in all twisted and different is now a functioning, adjusted component, a credit to the whole outfit and a marvel to behold.

- Author: [Ken Kesey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ken-kesey.md)
- Book: [One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ken-kesey/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ken-kesey/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest/this-is-what

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> "What worries me, Billy," she said — I could hear the change in her voice — "is how your mother is going to take this."

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