Beat Generation Quotes - Page 2

• The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hippie, Yawning, People

  On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)

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• I have a real soft spot for flying saucer songs and Frenkenstein songs. When I was a kid the first record I ever really liked was called "The Mummy", and the flip-side was called "The Beat Generation" which Richard Hell later re-wrote as "The Blank Generation". I thought it was the greatest thing I had ever heard. I didn't like Elvis much then, but I was very young. When I was a kid I used to play that monster all the time!

  Tom Verlaine

  Song, Real, Kids

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• I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, Guy, Generations

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• The beat generation (coined in Playboy)

  Jack Kerouac

  Generations, Beats, Playboy

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• O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.

  William S. Burroughs

  Men

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.289, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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