Clellon Holmes Quotes

#1. John Clellon Holmes ... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'

Jack Kerouac

#2. They were brought up in these ruins and no longer notice them.

John Clellon Holmes

#3. The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds

Keith Rabois

#4. I flew back and forth and did episodes of Roseanne while I was at Yale.

Sara Gilbert

#5. For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them.

John Clellon Holmes

#6. 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

#7. The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

John Clellon Holmes

#8. I never liked the Beatles. I thought they were garbage.

Lou Reed

#9. Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them, but because I can allow them to do what they wish in the course of my play with them.

James P. Carse

#10. 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

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

John Clellon Holmes

#12. 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

#13. A joy without object or reason rose within him, but like all such joys ebbed into frustration almost immediately because he did not know how to express it.

John Clellon Holmes

#14. Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.

Jaime Lerner

#15. 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

#16. ...unlike the Lost Generation, which was occupied with the loss of faith, the Beat Generation is becoming more and more occupied with the need for it.

John Clellon Holmes