"It is not my fault that certain so-called……" — Jack Kerouac

More Beatnik Quotes

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• I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along. — Charles Manson
• It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The… — Peter Fonda
• All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a… — Janis Joplin
• But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ...… — Jack Kerouac
• I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the… — Guillermo del Toro
• When LOVE played the still hipper Whisky A Go-Go, further west along Sunset, Arthur Lee claims they 'started the whole… — Unknown Author
• Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the… — Janis Joplin
• Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells.… — P.J. O'Rourke
• It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of… — Mary McCarthy
• Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue… — Robert M. Pirsig
• Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village… — Tom Folsom
• The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in… — Debbie Harry

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