7+ John Clellon Holmes Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best John Clellon Holmes quotes and sayings.

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

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

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

The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free. — John Clellon Holmes

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

Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. — John Clellon Holmes

Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class. — John Clellon Holmes