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It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
— Albert Camus
Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.
— Tim LaHaye
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
So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.
— Criss Jami
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
I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.
— Harvey Pekar
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
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
Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun.
— Woody Allen
My fans aren't obsessed. They're just incredible and devoted.
— Justin Bieber
Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.
— William S. Burroughs
...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
Torture the data, and it will confess to anything, as
— Ben Goldacre
I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.
— Geraldine Ferraro
For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them.
— John Clellon Holmes
The beat generation (coined in Playboy)
— Jack Kerouac
Anyone who's ever worked with Meryl Streep always says the same thing: can that woman act! And what's with all the Hitler memorabilia?
— Steve Martin
I believe in order, tenderness, and piety.
— Jack Kerouac
I am waiting
for the meek to be blessed
and inherit the earth ...
without taxes — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
for the meek to be blessed
and inherit the earth ...
without taxes — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk.
— Jack Kerouac
It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.
— William Faulkner
There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her.
— Claudia Black
They were brought up in these ruins and no longer notice them.
— John Clellon Holmes
I read a lot. I love books. If they came in a bottle, I'd be a drunk too.
— Alyxandra Harvey
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
— Confucius
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!
— Allen Ginsberg
the rocketmen ran for cover. The missiles
— Bernard Cornwell
O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time ...
— William S. Burroughs