Tim Forrest

“Oh the Beat generation was just a phrase I used in the 1951 written manuscript of On the Road to describe guys like Moriarty who run around the country in cars looking for odd jobs, girlfriends, kicks. It was thereafter picked up by West Coast Leftist groups and turned into a meaning like “Beat mutiny” and “Beat insurrection” and all that nonsense; they just wanted some youth movement to grab on to for their own political and social purposes. I had nothing to do with any of that. I was a football player, a scholarship college student, a merchant seaman, a railroad brakeman on road freights, a script synopsizer, a secretary … And Moriarty-Cassady was an actual cowboy on Dave Uhl’s ranch in New Raymer, Colorado … What kind of beatnik is that?”[22]”
― Semmelweis, Jack Kerouac and the Decline of the West

“Personally, I will never understand the critical association between “serious” music and “quality” music. In the ‘90s, however, one thing was spectacularly clear—if you played good-time, fun, party-songs, you were a joke; if you sang about hard times and depressing topics, you were legitimate.”
― Christopher P. Hilton, The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Hair Metal

“The spirit of the early settlers, fighting for self-reliance and survival, would be passed down from generation to generation in a vibrant and respected culture of North Carolinians.”
― J. William Denton, A History of Eastern North Carolina: Indigenous People, Colonization, and the Birth of a State

“It is common knowledge but uncommonly practised, that what you think is what you are. A fighter is the sum of his thoughts that occupy his mind on a daily basis. If a fighter decides to actively allow negative thoughts to run rampant in his mind, he will be operating from a negative mental zone.”
― Reemus Boxing, The Cus D'Amato Mind: Learn The Simple Secrets That Took Boxers Like Mike Tyson To Greatness