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Generation Quotes by Jack Kerouac
- 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…
- The beat generation (coined in Playboy)
- 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…
- But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years. — Paul Auster
- I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every… — John Avlon
- I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new… — Dan Aykroyd
- Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no,… — Christian Bale
- In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate… — Bob Barr
- Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a… — John Adams
- I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche. — Unknown Author
- Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to… — Joseph Addison
- Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies… — Joseph Addison