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— Jack Kerouac"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!'"
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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.
— John Clellon Holmes
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
— Jack Kerouac
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