Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly…

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for…

— Allen Ginsberg

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for…

— Allen Ginsberg

Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still cool but…

— Colson Whitehead

“Having a dissenting opinion on movies, music, or clothes, or owning clever or obscure possessions, is the way middle-class people fight one another for…

— David McRaney

“The unrecognized genius-that's one old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well?”

— Ayn Rand

Hipsters. We all know one. They're those fun, little, arrogant people who let the ideal of 'anti-consumerism,' combined with a hatred for all things…

— Steven Crowder

Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.

— Jeph Jacques

If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too…

— Ike Barinholtz

“Hipsters are fine with coffee but eye boutiques and banks with suspicion, yuppies are fine with the boutiques and banks but see landscapes radically…

— Peter Moskowitz

We've had distressed edges. We've had culottes. We've had high waisted jeans, we've seen the heralding of the new bootcut back again. I'm so…

— Alexa Chung

“[On hipsters:] Everything about them is exactingly constructed to give off the vibe that they just don't care.”

— Dan Fletcher

Whether it's spending more time and money at thrift shops for threads (anti-consumerist threads, mind you), or combing the record store for the most…

— Steven Crowder

My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too square and…

— James Ellroy

“Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.”

— John Kennedy Toole

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

— Jack Kerouac