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  • We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks

    Two   Long   Parent  
  • But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don't understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks! ... woe unto those who spit on the Beat Generation, the wind'll blow it back.

    Mean   Thinking   Blow  
  • Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.

  • the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

    On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)
  • My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

    "Rocker Patti Smith, 'Dream Of Life'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 30, 2009.
  • I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

    Jack Kerouac (1990). “Safe in Heaven Dead: Interviews with Jack Kerouac”
  • Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

    Rap   Beard   Bongos  
  • All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all I ever wanted. Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock 'n' roll band. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that's the trouble.

    Couple   Beer   Men  
  • If you have a counterculture band, you put a name on it, you call them beatniks, and you can sell something - books or bebop. Or you label them as hippies and you can sell tie-dyed T-shirts.

    Book   Hippie   Names  
    Source: www.jonathanrosenbaum.net
  • Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same conclusions as the youth. Or, since no doubt many people are quite clear about the connection that the structure of society that has becoming increasingly dominant in our country is disastrous to the growth of excellence and manliness, why don't more people speak up and say so?

    Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 10), 1956.
  • Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand.

  • There's this whole post-modern, nuevo beatnik, retro-bohemian thing going on, you know what I mean? You walk into some coffee shops, and it feels like you're an ex-patriot in Paris in the 20s. You're like, 'Hey, isn't that a young Ernest Hemingway over there? Yeah, I think it is! Hey, let's go have a look and see what he's writing... It's a Gap application.'

    Funny   Coffee   Writing  
  • Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.

    Blow   Wind   Enemy  
  • The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.

    Looks   Band   Beatnik  
  • From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

    Hip Hop   Dialect   Way  
    "OMFG, Horatio!" by Christopher Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2010.
  • I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

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

    Hippie   Yawning   People  
    On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)
  • It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

    The New York Journal-American, December 8, 1960.
  • As I became very conscious and more aware of things I got very into the beatniks and that kind of stuff. They were very important to me for a few years.

    Years   Important   Stuff  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

    Hippie   Yawning   People  
    On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)
  • When LOVE played the still hipper Whisky A Go-Go, further west along Sunset, Arthur Lee claims they 'started the whole hippy thing' in tandem with an in-crowd of freaks led by aging beatnik sculptor Vito Paulekas. It was Vito, Carl Franzoni, Sue, Beatle Bob, Bryan Maclean and me...people would come to Ben Frank's to hang out with us after we played shows.

    Sunset   People   Crowds  
  • I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat"... the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the "avatar" of all this.

    Mean   People   Childhood  
    Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA
  • The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

    Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.70, Beacon Press
  • Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be.

    Hippie   Gun   Past  
  • I like [Count] Olaf's wardrobe, because the whole thing seems like it should be a period piece in many ways, and yet the date is non-specific. So I would wear cloaks and jackets, but also turtlenecks. I was a little beatnik, and kind of hipster in that way.

    Hipster   Littles   Olaf  
    Source: www.buzzfeed.com
  • Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.

    Hippie   Simple   People  
    Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.21, Harper Collins
  • I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal was, Don't sell out. We live in a society that by virtue of the speed we communicate and sell, everything sells. The danger is buying in; that your concern becomes success, rather than fulfillment. They're two different beasts, and my feeling is that you should seek fulfillment. You should not measure your worth in how much you have or how popular you are, but how happy you are with what you do.

    Hippie   Past   Thinking  
  • I got interested in Zen when I was a teenage beatnik on the streets of San Francisco. And it was my interest in Zen, in part, that got me into the Marine Corps, because that was a ticket to Asia. So I spent a couple of years on Okinawa and began reading and thinking about how I wanted to go about conducting my life.

    Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
  • Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

    Life   Stars   Eye  
    Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1996). “Selected letters, 1940-1956”, Penguin Paperbacks
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