Jack Kerouac
Novelist, Poet
"And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!"
Beat Generation quotes
Beat Generation
3 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jack Kerouac
Novelist, Poet
"Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?"
William S. Burroughs
Writer
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time."
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