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The beat generation (coined in Playboy) -- Jack Kerouac
Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back. -- Bill Vaughan
Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme. -- William S. Burroughs
The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on. -- Mort Sahl
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. -- 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!' -- Jack Kerouac
Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that didn't really know what they were doing at the time, but accomplished something much bigger than what they ever foresaw. -- Garrett Hedlund
O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time... -- William S. Burroughs
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
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
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. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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. -- 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
When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in them, so whatever they do, it's going to come out differently, and it will speak in beats of their own generation. -- Robert Krulwich
Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I was into the whole Beat generation, Kerouac, etc., and all those artists talked about that and Kerouac, so I just got in the middle of being spontaneous. -- Matt Schulze
The Beat Generation - that term is even more familiar now, even more than say the '70s. Hype is built and established and people link it back to a certain generation, in this case the '40s and '50s. Now everyone knows that that group was the Beat Generation. -- Garrett Hedlund

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