“Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all? — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I am waiting for the meek to be blessed and inherit the earth... without taxes” — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There's this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“ It's the beat generation. It's the begát. It's the beat to keep. It's the beat in the heart. It's being beat… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I realized Jack [Kerouac] was deeply committed to writing. Kesey was just as deeply committed to living and experiencing the lives of… — Sterling Lord Copy Share Image
This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever.… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation - that term is even more familiar now, even more than say the '70s. Hype is built and established… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I… — Matt Schulze Copy Share Image
It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The epithet was quickly moving toward capitalized status: the Lost Generation. In subsequent generations, similar umbrella identities would be ascribed to each… — Lesley M.M. Blume Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I have a real soft spot for flying saucer songs and Frenkenstein songs. When I was a kid the first record I… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
“During this period of his life, Burroughs was seeking a physical utopia, a place where he could live and act as he… — Greg A. Mullins Copy Share Image
“The Beats and the Pranksters showed us different ways of opting out of society. They were both the personification of countercultural movements.… — Sterling Lord Copy Share Image
The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“He’d been toting it, and checking it, and packing and unpacking, all the way since fate was on the river - that’s… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
“God speaks to us, I would say, much more often than we realize or than we choose to realize. Before the sun… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“These young-marrying, contemporaries or juniors of the Beat Generation, have often expressed themselves as follows: "My highest aim in life is to… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“I would rather go mad, gone down the dark road to Mexico, heroin dripping in my veins, eyes and ears full of… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Now you're going East with Sal," Galatea said, "and what do you think you're going to accomplish by that? Camille has to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
I recommend for any basic course on the Beat Generation to familiarize yourself with 'The Idiot,' Prince Myshkin. He was Dostoyevsky's idea… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked. — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
“It is always morning, the caravan is always departing. All we can do is share the Prophet's prayer - "O Lord increase… — Peter Lamborn Wilson Copy Share Image
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![“These young-marrying, contemporaries or juniors of the Beat Generation, have often expressed themselves as follows: "My highest aim in life is to achieve a normal healthy marriage and raise healthy [non-neurotic] children." On the face of it, this remark is preposterous. What was always taken as a…” quote by Paul Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/670/paul-goodman-7755_beat-generation_these-young-marrying-contemporaries-or-j_1042873.jpg)
