Beatnik Generation Quotes

#1. My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.

Rachel Kushner

#2. I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was a jazz critic, and I was always thinking, theorizing about what makes great art or what's important in art.

Harvey Pekar

#3. I've met writers who wanted to be writers from the age of six, but I certainly had no feelings like that. It was only in the Philippines when I was about 15 that I started reading books by very contemporary writers of the Beatnik generation.

Romesh Gunesekera

#4. I have no control whatsoever on how people perceive me from the Right or the Left. All I have control over is who I say I am.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#5. I firmly believe that in this fiery ordeal, in this suffering, misery, and woe, the South is but undergoing a purification by fire and steel that will, in good time, and by God's decree, work out her own independence.

Belle Boyd

#6. I see, and say nothing.

Elizabeth I

#7. A place of solitude offers a retreat from the opposing forces and diverse demands of living, an entry into a state of peace and unity. Mind and body can retire from confusion and conflict to a sanctuary of clarity and harmony

Anthony Lawlor

#8. Drooling over an African figure that I could never have, I feasted my eyes upon
the swaying mounds of my fellow African sisters.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#9. I respect people and expect that kind of respect back.

Dennis Franz

#10. I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.

Gemma Files

#11. He said he would come in,' the White Queen went on, 'because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn't such a thing in the house, that morning.'
Is there generally?' Alice asked in an astonished tone.
Well, only on Thursdays,' said the Queen.

Lewis Carroll

#12. If only we had more time. One more week, or even one more day.

Victoria Aveyard

#13. John McCain said that Sarah Palin is still a force in the Republican Party. Then he got in his car and backed over his mailbox.

David Letterman

#14. I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do you win it? Jurors are wading through skyscrapers of paper, looking for one story that stands out.

Michael Winter

#15. I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity.

Benjamin Franklin