John Clellon Holmes Quotes

• 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

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

  John Clellon Holmes

  Soul, Sand, Your Soul

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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

  John Clellon Holmes

  Class, Kind, Middle

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• 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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