John Clellon Holmes Quotes

Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.

The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

They were brought up in these ruins and no longer notice them.

For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them.

But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.

The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

...unlike the Lost Generation, which was occupied with the loss of faith, the Beat Generation is becoming more and more occupied with the need for it.