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He was described as the literary leader of the age, but had never written a book that sold more than three thousand copies. — Ayn Rand

I mean, certainly, not everyone sucks in the same way, and not everyone sucks equally, but everyone sucks at least a little. — David Levithan

The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on. *1958 — Mort Sahl

Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all? — Jack Kerouac

When I die, I will return to where I first came from. Back to the stars. — Amani Abbas

Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back. — Bill Vaughan

Tell stories that matter. Diction is about characters who don't exist, but their pain and sorrow and joy are very real. — Brenda Rothert

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys. — Harvey Pekar

I don't do game shows. — Trisha Goddard

Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal. — James F. Cooper

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

Does kittykat know there's a pigeon on the clothes closet? — Jack Kerouac

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life. — Bridget Moynahan

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels. — William Carlos Williams

What we need in Washington now is a strong Republican president who knows how to govern. — Chris Christie

Remember: Jesus compares evangelism with sowing seed, not swinging swords. — Randall Arthur

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa! — Allen Ginsberg

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme. — William S. Burroughs

Drunken talk isn't meant to be printed in the paper. — Ray Charles

O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time ... — William S. Burroughs

I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk. — Jack Kerouac

I am waiting
for the meek to be blessed
and inherit the earth ...
without taxes — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I believe in order, tenderness, and piety. — Jack Kerouac

The beat generation (coined in Playboy) — Jack Kerouac

We may look and act modern in many ways, but we can't escape what we are ... obedient chinese daughters. — Lisa See

For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them. — John Clellon Holmes

They were brought up in these ruins and no longer notice them. — John Clellon Holmes

I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast. — Kenneth Branagh

Authentic power is a new potential of this expanded perceptual system that we are all being given as a gift. — Gary Zukav

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now — Arnold Schwarzenegger

...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. — John Clellon Holmes