“While leaning over the toilet getting up his nerve, he thought that the moment before making yourself throw up must be very like the instant before suicide. You are almost content to bear the sickening headache and the torment in… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
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
