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

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
Different Nationalities, People, Generations

Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.

John Clellon Holmes
Soul, Sand, Your Soul

Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.

John Clellon Holmes
Book, Imagination, Risk
1979 Preface to reprint of The Horn.

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

John Clellon Holmes
Years, White, America
1979 Preface to reprint of The Horn.

The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

John Clellon Holmes
Path, Ants, Glaciers
John Clellon Holmes (2015). “Go: A Novel”, p.247, Open Road Media

Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class.

John Clellon Holmes
Class, Kind, Middle

But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.

John Clellon Holmes
Book, Thinking, Jail
John Clellon Holmes (2015). “Go: A Novel”, p.254, Open Road Media

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