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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
Nice, Ideas, Today
"First draft of Kerouac's Beat bible, 'On the Road,' arrives in San Francisco, the very city it sanctified" by Delfin Vigil, www.sfgate.com. January 18, 2006.
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.