The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holme…

Jack Kerouac
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The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way. ✨ Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). The portable Jack Kerouac, Penguin Group USA
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