“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.” ~ Jack Kerouac
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i took some type of quiz about which beatnik I would most be like…it came back Jack Kerouac. haha
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I grew up about 10 miles from where he was born in Lowell, Mass.
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