The Beat Generation Quotes
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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
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 waitingfor 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
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
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