Beat Generation Quotes

14 quotes by 6 authors

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
The beat generation (coined in Playboy) — Jack Kerouac
Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme. — William S. Burroughs
I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys — Harvey Pekar
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
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
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
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
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
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
O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time... — William S. Burroughs
Itâ€™s a sort of furtiveness â€¦ Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge thereâ€™s no use flaunting on that… — Jack Kerouac
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
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

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