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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

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

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

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again. — DaShanne Stokes

...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

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness. — Vernon Howard

He growled softly at her.Then open your legs for me,Julia.This cat must have his cream. — Laura Wright

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

The beat generation (coined in Playboy) — Jack Kerouac

although she shook her head. — Shirley Jackson

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

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

The career stuff is for business people. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I crossed the invisible barrier between us. — Lisa Kleypas

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

We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success. — Anna Quindlen

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place. — Paul De Man

I like people that challenge their art, not only in the purist way, but also in terms of how they could provoke and make something different. — Guy Laliberte

Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night? — Jim Butcher

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

I don't even have a stalker. I'm just not the guy that people stalk. — Seth Rogen

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden. — T. S. Eliot

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

I like Lil Wayne. — Joe Mauer

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