24 Quotes About Beatnik
- Author Henry Miller
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I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.
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- Author Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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[in the true mad north] of introspection,where 'falcons of the inner eye'dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.
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- Author Jack Kerouac
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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.
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- Author Charles de Lint
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Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand.
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- Author Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
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- Author Gary Snyder
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Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.
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- Author Harry Whitewolf
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The problem with the 11:11 Phenomenon is getting anybody interested in it that hasn't experienced it themselves. Other phenomena, such as U.F.Os or crop circles, are able to be seen. We can debate them. But seeing and being guided by 11:11 is hard to convey to those uninitiated in its ways.
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- Author Christina Westover
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..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.
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- Author Douglas Woolf
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Twentyone is too old to go anywhere alone, you know that. I want to go with someone. I don't mean as a bride, I'm not so gauche as that, but as a mistress or paramour or concubine or companion or friend or pal or anything else. I just don't want to be left alone! I want to get out of here!" She said it again for all the wide-faced flowers to hear: "I want to get out of here!
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