1960 Quote by Jack Kerouac

Let's clear the air. We all know that pigeon was a whore. Raise your hand if you didn't sleep with that pigeon. - Mr.…

— South Park

“The thing about her is, she’s good-natured. He knew it the second he saw her standing by the parking meters. He could just tell…

— John Updike

“Dabbling in the sandbox gives Rabbit a small headache. Over at the pavilion the rubber thump of Roofball and the click of checkers call…

— John Updike

“Nelson! Stop that this minute!" She turns rigid in the glider but does not rise to see what is making the boy cry. Eccles,…

— John Updike

“I floor the gas pedal. The Sonoramic Commando V-8 growls like an angry tiger and leapfrogs us ahead of the traffic.”

— Daven Anderson

John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I…

— Jack Kerouac

“ It's the beat generation. It's the begát. It's the beat to keep. It's the beat in the heart. It's being beat and down…

— Jack Kerouac

The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with a beard,…

— 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

“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

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

Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

— Jack Kerouac