"Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie"……" — Robert M. Pirsig
"Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term."
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135 Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig
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I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.
— Charles Manson
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It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The…
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a…
— Janis Joplin
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But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ...…
— Jack Kerouac
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I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the…
— Guillermo del Toro
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When LOVE played the still hipper Whisky A Go-Go, further west along Sunset, Arthur Lee claims they 'started the whole…
— Unknown Author
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the…
— Janis Joplin
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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
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It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of…
— Mary McCarthy
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Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village…
— Tom Folsom
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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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My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also…
— Judd Apatow
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