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beat generation noun the alienated class of young Americans who came of age in the mid-1940s and then embraced an alternative lifestyleand values in the 1950s US- It’s time we thought about our material. Call them hipsters, the “beat generation,” “postwar kids,” or our own displaced person whatever you will. — John Clellon Holmes, Letter to Jack Kerouac, 28 April 1950
- They were like the man with the dungeon stone and the gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was joining. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road (The Original Scroll), p. 156, 1951
- The whole beat generation is a pain in the ass after 35. — Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1957–1969, pp. 138–139, 13 April 1958: Letter to John Clellon Holmes
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