Jack Kerouac

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United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969)

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Members of the generation that came of age after World War II-Korean War who join in a relaxation of social and sexual tensions, and who espouse anti-regimentation, mystic-disaffiliation, and material-simplicity values, supposedly as a result of cold-war disillusionment. Coined by Jack Kerouac. Jack Kerouac

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys. Harvey Pekar

Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was. Dennis Miller

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend. Hunter S. Thompson

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me. Rupert Penry-Jones

Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and others lived unusually free, sexually expressive lives." Source: Internet

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