"O death where is thy sting? The man…" — William S. Burroughs

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• The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an… — Jack Kerouac
• The beat generation (coined in Playboy) — Jack Kerouac
• Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme. — William S. Burroughs
• I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and… — Harvey Pekar
• They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America,… — Jack Kerouac
• But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ...… — Jack Kerouac
• John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the… — Jack Kerouac
• The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that… — John Clellon Holmes
• This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue… — Jack Kerouac
• It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s… — Jack Kerouac
• Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that… — Jack Kerouac

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