John Clellon Holmes quotes
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“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 HolmesSource : John Clellon Holmes (2015). “Go: A Novel”, p.254, Open Road Media
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“The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.”
-- John Clellon HolmesSource : John Clellon Holmes (2015). “Go: A Novel”, p.247, Open Road Media
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“The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.”
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“Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class.”
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“Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.”
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“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 HolmesSource : 1979 Preface to reprint of The Horn.
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“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 HolmesSource : 1979 Preface to reprint of The Horn.
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“Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
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“Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail”
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Source : Angela Davis: An Autobiography ch. 1 (1974)
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“The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.”
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