Beat Generation Quotes
14 quotes by 6 authors
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The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the…
— Jack Kerouac
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The beat generation (coined in Playboy)
— Jack Kerouac
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Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.
— William S. Burroughs
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I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys
— Harvey Pekar
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They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that…
— Jack Kerouac
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But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack…
— Jack Kerouac
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John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said…
— Jack Kerouac
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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
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This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not…
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with a beard, is…
— Jack Kerouac
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O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time...
— William S. Burroughs
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It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that…
— Jack Kerouac
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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
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Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I was into the…
— Matt Schulze
Who Wrote These Beat Generation Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 14 Beat Generation Quotes as follows: