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1. "The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free." ~ John Clellon Holmes
2. "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
3. "He'd been toting it, and checking it, and packing and unpacking, all the way since fate was on the river - that's how long - the Big River" - Fate Marable and his riverboat caliope (Cleo seemed to recall), who hadastonished the landings between New Orleans and St. Louis with the wild, harsh, skirling Gypsy music, and left there, echoing in the young and restless even as it dies off round the bed; to linger with them thereafter, in the pelting roar of November midnights and the clickety-clack of lonesome valley freights, until they up one night and go after it in a battered bus, following the telephone wires that make a zigzag music staff against the evening sky - some variation of that basic beginning could be told for everyone who jazz has touched and altered." ~ John Clellon Holmes
4. "...simply telling the truth wasn't half enough. It still has to be brought to fictional life." ~ John Clellon Holmes
5. "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

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