Beat generation Quote by Greg A. Mullins

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

— Jack Kerouac

“I am waiting for the meek to be blessed and inherit the earth... without taxes”

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“I realized Jack [Kerouac] was deeply committed to writing. Kesey was just as deeply committed to living and experiencing the lives of others; for…

— Sterling Lord

“The Beats and the Pranksters showed us different ways of opting out of society. They were both the personification of countercultural movements. The Beats…

— Sterling Lord

“I believe in order, tenderness, and piety.”

— Jack Kerouac

“The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on. *1958”

— Mort Sahl

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling…

— Jack Kerouac

Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

— Jack Kerouac

“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

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…

— 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…

— 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