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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?”

Wake Up Beat Generation

Book:The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

“Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.”

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Author:William S. Burroughs

“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.”

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Book:The Portable Jack Kerouac

Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac

“The beat generation (coined in Playboy)”

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Author:Jack Kerouac

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

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Author:William S. Burroughs

“They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.”

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Book:On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don't understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks! ... woe unto those who spit on the Beat Generation, the wind'll blow it back.”

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Author:Jack Kerouac

“John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'”

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Book:The Portable Jack Kerouac

Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac

“Because the only people for me are the mad ones.”

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Author:Jack Kerouac

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

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Author:John Clellon Holmes

“This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.”

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Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti