Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about John Clellon Holmes
John Clellon Holmes Quotes
5 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.
John Clellon Holmes
Source
Report...
The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.
John Clellon Holmes
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up.
John Clellon Holmes
Quote of the day
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
George Farquhar
John Clellon Holmes
Born:
March 12, 1926
Died:
March 30, 1988
(aged 62)
Bio:
John Clellon Holmes was an American author, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 novel Go. Considered the first "Beat" novel, Go depicted events in his life with his friends Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg.
John Clellon Holmes on Wikipedia
Suggest an edit or a new quote
John Clellon Holmes Quotes
Quotes about John Clellon Holmes
American Novelist Quotes
Novelist Quotes
20th-century Novelist Quotes
Related Authors
Neal Cassady
American Poet
Jack Kerouac
American Poet
Allen Ginsberg
American Poet
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes