“..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
As I became very conscious and more aware of things I got very into the beatniks and that kind of stuff. They… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a… — Janis Joplin 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
“They're auras, Davey. I see them, too. The longer you stare at them, the wider the energy field expands until more colors… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band. — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
If you have a counterculture band, you put a name on it, you call them beatniks, and you can sell something -… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the… — Tom Folsom Copy Share Image
I got interested in Zen when I was a teenage beatnik on the streets of San Francisco. And it was my interest… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Shared emotions experienced by two souls,empathy on unequivocal level which Davey believed would change entire species of mankind if only secret of… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't telepathic, doesn't see auras,doesn't know what life… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc.… — Ian McLagan Copy Share Image
We had been reading about these beatniks who hung out or lived in Greenwich Village, and we wanted to find out what… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal… — Guillermo del Toro 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
All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time.… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“there was no beatnik movement in Germany because there were now no traditions to revolt against;” — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“But lately I'm like a beatnik in a movie. Fuck this bourgeois shit, baby! Let's be pure of heart again!” — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
“..giving power to negative thoughts or fears was bringing ideas to life in physical world,idea in mind became emotion in heart,emotion turned… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
“Twentyone is too old to go anywhere alone, you know that. I want to go with someone. I don't mean as a… — Douglas Woolf Copy Share Image
“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Lured by smooth roads onto a new turnpike, he read with surprise the rules he was handed, don't stop, don't turn around,… — Douglas Woolf Copy Share Image
We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And -… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that… — Peter Fonda Copy Share Image
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