Go Quotes

“While leaning over the toilet getting up his nerve, he thought that the moment before making yourself throw up must be very like the instant before suicide. You are almost content to bear the sickening headache and the torment in your stomach rather than go through that moment. But the prospect of relief made you foolhardy and you jammed your finger down your throat.”
― John Clellon Holmes, Go

“A joy without object or reason rose within him, but like all such joys ebbed into frustration almost immediately because he did not know how to express it.”
― John Clellon Holmes, Go

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

“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, Go

“Postupně, jak kniha pokračovala, mi začínalo docházet, že vášnivá účast na životě (na jakékoli úrovni) představuje jedinou naději; že absence lásky (již Ginsberg později nazval „odepřenou něžností“) je hlavní chorobou doby a že její zdroj je v nás všech, kteří odmítali vzít na sebe riziko zranitelnosti.”
― John Clellon Holmes, Go

“[Letters] never failed to surprise and please him, because they reminded him that he existed in other people's thoughts.”
― John Clellon Holmes, Go

“In this modern jazz, they heard something rebel and nameless that spoke for them, and their lives knew a gospel for the first time. It was more than a music; it became an attitude toward life, a way of walking, a language and a costume; and these introverted kids (emotional outcasts of a war they had been too young to join, or in which they had lost their innocence), who had never belonged anywhere before, now felt somewhere at last.”
― John Clellon Holmes, Go: A Novel

“debate in his troubled thoughts, however. Despite this, they”
― John Clellon Holmes, Go: A Novel