Certain Quote by John Clellon Holmes Download Open image “Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class.” — John Clellon Holmes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Certain Class Kind Middle Middle class Narcotics
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being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
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The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take. — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
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Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy. — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
“...simply telling the truth wasn’t half enough. It still has to be brought to fictional life.” — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free. — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
“While leaning over the toilet getting up his nerve, he thought that the moment before making yourself throw up must be very like the… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
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