# Quote — Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

> Everything is going to the beat — It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown and like in ancient civilizations the slave boatmen rowing galleys to a beat and servants spinning pottery to a beat...

- Author: [Jack Kerouac](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac.md)
- Book: [Desolation Angels](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/desolation-angels.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac#Desolation_Angels_(1965)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/desolation-angels/everything-is-going

## More from this book

> I could give you a list a mile long of the homosexuals in the arts but there's no point in making a big tzimis about a relatively harmless and cool state of affairs — Each man to his own tastes.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/desolation-angels/i-could-give.md)

> A sociable smile is nothing but teeth.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/desolation-angels/a-sociable-smile.md)

> There's your Karma ripe as peaches.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/desolation-angels/theres-your-karma.md)