But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take. — John Clellon Holmes 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 how long… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
“A joy without object or reason rose within him, but like all such joys ebbed into frustration almost immediately because he did not know… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy. — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
“...simply telling the truth wasn’t half enough. It still has to be brought to fictional life.” — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of… — John Clellon Holmes 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
The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free. — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
“While leaning over the toilet getting up his nerve, he thought that the moment before making yourself throw up must be very like the… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class. — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
